Category: Health & Medicine
The question as to there being several kinds of malaria, further examined--Theory of Macculloch, tracing to a malaria, chiefly generated by man himself, all forms of disease, from the plague to a common neuralgia--This theory now accepted, and to a certain extent acted on by t...
The question as to there being several kinds of malaria, further examined--Theory of Macculloch, tracing to a malaria, chiefly generated by man himself, all forms of disease, fr...
2. CHAPTER II.The history of epidemics adverse to the theory of Macculloch--Results of confounding drains with sewers, and of converting drains into drain-sewers--Influence of the external wo...
3. CHAPTER III.The great plague in the time of Justinian--View as to its African origin, and strictly contagious nature, adopted by Gibbon--Admits, however, the necessity for an insalubrious c...
4. CHAPTER IV.View of nature acted on by the Hollander and Brabanter--Their struggle to overcome the difficulties of their position--Rise of the Dutch Republic, and of the School of Mechanica...
5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.Extent of life on the globe as proved by the microscope--Theory of Cuvier as to the nutrition of plants and animals--Vast extent of the microscopic living world--The “blooming o...
7. CHAPTER VII.Decomposition and metamorphosis of animal beings--Influence they exercise over the soil as a habitation for man--Disposal of the excreta and remains of animals and vegetables--D...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Earth, air, and water, in relation to man--How modified by him--Results of that modification--Action and reaction--Antagonism of man to nature--Effects of human labour on the so...
9. CHAPTER IX.On poisons, miasms, and contagions--Difficulties besetting the questions as to their essential nature and origin--Poison of typhus, of yellow fever, and of the remittent fevers...
10. CHAPTER X.On the servitude of rivers--Practical knowledge of the ancients--Early Roman history a fable--The great social problems of _race_ and _climate_ in some measure unknown to the Ro...
11. CHAPTER I.Thus stood the question of malaria towards the close of the last century, and for some years afterwards; its existence in certain localities was never questioned--no one pretend...
12. CHAPTER II.About thirty years ago, as I have already remarked, one of the most distinguished practical geologists of this or any other country directed his attention to a subject of much g...
13. CHAPTER III.A very few years ago it was the general opinion, even of the best informed, that epidemic diseases originate in atmospheric influences over which man has no control. A reservati...
14. CHAPTER IV.Necessity is the mother of invention. “Quis psittacum loqui docuit? Venter: Magister artium.”[17] A constant struggle with Nature for existence taught the Hollander and Brabante...
15. CHAPTER V.§ 1. For all practical purposes, the fevers termed intermittent and remittent may be held to have their origin in one cause. Thus, whether on the marshy coasts of Essex and Kent...
16. CHAPTER VI.§ 1. It has been often remarked, and with great truth, that the world abounds with life. In the remains of that which had once lived, which was at one period organic, the illust...
17. CHAPTER VII.During life animal bodies undergo continual decomposition and recomposition; life is in fact a perpetual metamorphosis. Whilst alive, the products of vitality (_excreta_) are re...
18. CHAPTER VIII.§ 1. The question of acclimation is not confined merely to man’s transfer from one country to another, and to his attempts to accommodate himself to the new locality, to the alt...
19. CHAPTER IX.§ 1. Although the amount of disease and mortality traceable to accidents, to the ordinary atmospheric changes of which the thermometer gives us due information, to the habits of...
20. CHAPTER X.If the servitude of rivers be the noblest and most important victory which man has obtained over the licentiousness of nature,[55] then assuredly ancient civilizations bear away...