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This fact is proved. The susceptibility of the soldiers, it might be presumed, was, ceteris paribus, equal to that of other persons, even though they should have lived in separate apartments, and consumed every available kind of fresh food.

The endemic having been general, it is reasonable to suppose that it would have invaded the barracks under any circumstances; the question is, what imported to it its peculiar malignity?

Experience has taught us that the exhalations from the bodies of a great number of human beings congregated within a confined space, even without any diseased taint, but with variable idiosyncrasies, reacting upon each other, are apt to generate disease. If this be true of healthy bodies, what must be the effects of these reciprocal influences on a great number of persons tainted by malarial causes? There exists in many a natural power of resisting disease, - a power by which they are enabled to repel malaria, or shake off its first assaults; but this power is destroyed when another and a stronger poison is perpetually acting on the system, under the evils of a vitiated atmosphere. Dr. Southwood Smith, than whom there is no better authority, declares that "the most potent febrile poison is that which is given off from the living bodies of those 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, when in sound health, much more when in disease, and above all when that disease is fever, to produce a poison capable of generating fever, is great."

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Writers of great eminence have endeavoured to ascertain the laws by which infection is diffused through the atmosphere, and they assert that a decidedly contagious disease is communicable to a susceptible body within the limits of half a yard.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Reference: C.O./133 COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH - NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON 182. This fact is proved. The susceptibility of the soldiers, it might be presumed, was, ceteris paribus, equal to that of other persons, even though they should have lived in separate apartments, and consumed every available kind of fresh food. The endemic having been general, it is reasonable to suppose that it would have invaded the barracks under any circumstances; the question is, what imported to it its peculiar malignity? Experience has taught us that the exhalations from the bodies of a great number of human beings congregated within a confined space, even without any diseased taint, but with variable idiosyncrasies, reacting upon each other, are apt to generate disease. If this be true of healthy bodies, what must be the effects of these reciprocal influences on a great number of persons tainted by malarial causes? There exists in many a natural power of resisting disease, - a power by which they are enabled to repel malaria, or shake off its first assaults; but this power is destroyed when another and a stronger poison is perpetually acting on the system, under the evils of a vitiated atmosphere. Dr. Southwood Smith, than whom there is no better authority, declares that "the most potent febrile poison is that which is given off from the living bodies of those 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, when in sound health, much more when in disease, and above all when that disease is fever, to produce a poison capable of generating fever, is great." 185. Writers of great eminence have endeavoured to ascertain the laws by which infection is diffused through the atmosphere, and they assert that a decidedly contagious disease is communicable to a susceptible body within the limits of half a yard.

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