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proved this fact. The susceptibility of the Soldiers, it might be presumed, was, cactéris paribus, equal to that of other persons, cren
though they should have lived in separate apartments, and consumed,
available kind of fresh food.
Like others, every
reasonable
The endemie having been general, it is rea to suppose that it would have invaded the
javiem under any circumstances; the question
is
them, what imported to it, in the Banacks, its peculiar malignity?
Experienen has taught us that the exhalations from the bodies of a great number of human beings congregated within confined space,
eret
without
any
diseased
taint, but with variable idiosyneracics, reacting upon cach other, are apt to generate disease. If this be true of healthy bodies, what must be the effects of these reciprocal influcuees great number of persons tainted by malarial I causes? There exists in
manny
Ma
a natural
power of resisting disease, - a power by which
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off
they are enabled to repel malaria, or shatte it's first assaults; but this power is destroyed when another used a stronger poison is perpetually reting on the system, under the evils
under the evils of a vitiated atmosphere. Ir Southecord Smith, than whom there is us better authority - declares that, by for
the most potent febrile porem derived from
is that which is given off for origin
nimal
Al
you the
living bodies of there who are affected with fever, especially when such exhalations are pent-up in a close and confined apartment." And he adds,
" the power of the living body, sound health, much more when in disease, and above all when that disease is fever, to produce
"Of the
CITIL
when in
eminence
have
a poison capable of generating fover, disputes!" Writers of great endeavoured to ascertain the laws by which infection is diffuced through the atuersphere, and they accent that a decidedly contagions discare, is communicable to a susceptible body within the limits of half a yard. This