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regetable being

animal

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sne suitable to some, a

food to other stomachs. Indeech, -kinds of food that will nourish

inte

and

me man,

of

Joue

will

"poison another. I knew a physician who never

oysters without being scized with Hemiplegia. In short, uniformity in digestive powers is as :difficult to attain in a Regiment, and as absurd

to demand, as it would be to order

soldier to

every spectacles, to interd the sphere.

wear concare spectacles.

his vision: Ventilation is another

of his

great

requisite in Barracks,- ventilation by approved and scientific apparatus. On this point there prevails a very commomenor. Ventilation is

:ffected in norous, generally, either under an misconception of the nature of the vitiated air, or of its exceific gravity. The gas usually so injurious in a crowded room is carbonic acid,

schose specific gravity is greater than that of atmospherie air. Consequently, the renal methods of ventilation, by openings in the ceilings, will have little effects in expelling it. The

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ventilaling apertures should be below as well. above, and, even then, some pneumatic power

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is requisite to expel foul air. In the absence of this, there should be a fire continually

in are

of air

open grate, which would create a current

the chamber and a vacuum.

in the lower part of

ain the flue, to which all would tend.

in

The topographical.

рассти

matters

sources of malaria

fourfold: its situation, the

. Houghing are fourfold.

nature of its soil and regetation, the intensity of its heat, both direct and radiated, its humidity, the prevalence of electricity, _ and the habits of the people.

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The range of hills on the southern and western aspects of

cets of the island exclude the south-weet winds, _ the air becomes stagnant

in the

amphitheatre, and its constituents are brought into dangerous affinities with adventitions gazes.

The soil,

so retentive

of

moisture, the heat and electricity, all favour