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the disease, to isolate the cases, and to convey the uninfected from contact with the diseased, by placing them in a floating hulk! What was the immediate cause of the prevalence of disease during the last summer, and especially of that disease which decimated the 95th Regiment? It has been popularly conceived that the removal of earth near the barracks, undisturbed since the Plutonic origin of this island, did all the evil. But then did the disease remain so long undeveloped after the evolution of its imputed cause? The precise nature of which I never heard explained. Was it a gas confined within the cells of the earth, in itself innocuous, and rendered poisonous by contact and combination with the free gases floating in the external air? The supposition is un-geological. The light of a little science will show the glimmering of causes more rational than that.
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Electricity exerts a most powerful influence upon the whole of the animal and vegetable world, and this, not merely through the meteorological processes, precipitations of watery vapour, of acids, or of ammoniacal compounds, which it occasions, but also immediately, the electrical force that pervades and occasions the force which excites the circulation of the juices.
The latitudes in which we live are peculiarly liable to thunderstorms, and the congregation of small islands, like those in these waters, surrounded by an extensive ocean, acts peculiarly on the atmosphere and gives occasion to thunderstorms. Places in which lightning is common; if those places be compared with regions like Peru, where it is never seen, it will be found that evidences of the salubriousness of the latter are much greater than of the former.
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the disease, to isolate the cases, and to convey
the uninfected
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from contact with the
diseased, by placing them in a What
floating hulk !
the
immediate
of the prevalence of disease during
caused
the last
summer, and especially of that disease which. decimated the 95th Regiment ? It has
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been popularly conceived that the removal of
carth,
near
the barracks, undisturbed- since the
Plutonic on
origin of this island, did-all- the evil- Buy
then did the disease remain so
long
- undeveloped after, the evolution of its imputed_ cause ? _ the precise _ nature of which I never heard explained. Was it
a gas confined within the cells of the earth', in itself innocuous, and : rendered poisonous by contact and combination with the free gases floating in the external
air?
The supposition is ungcological.
The light of a little science will show the glimmering of
causes more rational than that.
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Electricity ceerts a most powerful
influence upon the whole of the animal and vegetable world, and this, not merely through the meteorological procefies, precipitations of watery vapour, of acids, or of ammoniacal compounds, which it occasions, but also immediately, the electrical force, that
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surves and occasions
force which excites the
assists the circulation of the juices.
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The latitudes in which we live
peculiarly
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the congregation of small islands, like those
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extensive
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If those places
be compared with regions like
Peru, where it is never seen, it will be
found that cvidences of the salubriousness of the latter are much queath than of the
greater
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