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The prevalence of electricity may of local disease. of the south range of
be one of the proximate
Ie the
near
causes
the Hongkong saturated by the sluggish_ absorption_ of ____ moisture- from the quily above, and by recasional tourists, the waters of which rest
the surface of the table land, which
barracks there is swampy ground,
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terminates the ravine. This
months was
This gully for many
on the
at on
1 thickly colonized by bhinced workmen, in temporary huts, whose filth descended and remained stagnant point alluded to, from which_ free gases would. be perpetually evolved, ready to be elaborated into poisonous compounds, by a farnable stroke of electricity.
Epidemic diseases, however, do not. necessarily derive their origin from saternal
The relative... failure
¿causes.
in the perfection
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of organic functions
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in an individual will
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give- ried to unwholesome secretions and effluvia which, coming.
in contact with the susceptible
and favourabh - organiem - of another, may be. the surans of originating and propagating an epidemic.
The
- geological circumstances of this bolony in many respects resemble that carly condition of the globe
to
is a-
which
was
suited only
living organizations of a very low type=
mass of granite, disengulphed from the centre. of the earth
caules.
by antients Plutonic
It is little to be wondered at that
such a surface, affording no scope for that beautiful reciprocity, which is so mutually boneficial, between animal, and. regetable respiration, and yielding only or chiefly such as are not refreched by
-vegetable productions
the fertilising existence and economy of herbivorous animals, but. renewing itself by