An essay on the non-existence of malaria : especially as a cause of intermittent and remittent bilious fevers : read before the Central Medical Society of Georgia, December 3, 1828 / by Alexander Jones.

  • Alexander Jones
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1829
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    ny in salt than fresh water : evaporation goes on equally from Doili/'—H. The experience of the inhabitants of the low settlements, or sea :oast of Georgia and Carolina, ;s widely different from this state- men:. Many of them quit their resiJences and remove to the sea roast, or to the islands surrounded by salt water, where they tnjoy comparative, if not entire exemption from those diseases, said to be produced by malaria. We do not deny, nor does the admis- sion of the fact prove any thing, that evaporation goes on equally from both kinds of water. (h) The miasmaUst could not possibly have a more valuable fact.—//. It is at their service. (i) It may require all the heat of the summer months to gene- »ate malaria, and in the fall to produce its ravages. Of this, iheie is not the smallest proof. ()) Malaria, it is said by some, exists only in union with moisture, er is dissolved in it. No proof at all of this. If moisture be so important, it is a brace 'o our theory. (k) At night, when the moisture is condensed, the malaria may vje more active.—H. Mere supposition.--If any result happens, it is a cooler and more moist atmosphere, very likely to check perspiration. (I) They may be in a current of air from a malaria district.— We know it may be wafied miles.—H. [So may moisture.J Of they may be affected by a check of perspiration, as you have cor- rectly staled. [ Well said.] Thus they are exposed to two causes —H. [Admit it; but malaria is not one of them.] (m) Heat may destroy malaria.— Ti. So said, but not proven. It may also destroy or dissipate moisture. (n) See McCulloch.—H. I know what he imagines or says ; but he is wanting in proofs. Malaria may be generated [and felt also, I suppose] in situations where you would not suspect it. It may be wafied by currents for miles. The very same may confidently be asserted of moisture. (o) This certainly works both ways, and the miasraatut may :ake advantage of it, as well as his adversaries.—H. He is welcome to it. (p) The Hollander, amidst his fogs, is a healthy, robust man; he Italian, in his (comparatively) dry sky, is puny.—H. It is said, owing to (he damp atmosphere of Holland, lift* is de- tracted one half; and even M'Culloch includes that country as one of his malaria districts—he likewise affirms, that a dram of any stimulating liquor has a tendency to prevent the action of malaria in Holland When we take into consideration, the manner of living among the Germans—their stimulating diet of onions, leeks, garlic, with their exressive use of tobacco in smoking ; all of which deter- mine to the surface and prevent the action of moistuc on their systems, which is likewise aided by their thick woollen dresses, universally worn, it is not surprising, under sucb circumstances, t$
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