Hooded in leather cases, with glass eyelet-holes, and secured as much as possible from the foul effluvia of the air they are to breathe, they undertake this melancholy journey, travelling always with the wind.
The charcoal respirator possesses a decided advantage over respirators of the ordinary construction, in that all disagreeable effluvia are absorbed by the charcoal, so that comparatively pure air is alone inhaled.
Thick curtains, closely drawn around the bed, are very injurious, because they not only confine the effluvia thrown off from our bodies whilst in bed, but interrupt the current of pure air.
Numerous experiments with roasted coffee prove that it is the most powerful means, not only of rendering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but of actually destroying them.
The perfumers sometimes expose it to the fetid ammoniacal effluviaof privies for the same purpose.
The negative evidence is, however, so strong as to justify the view that the effluvia from a well-managed sewage farm do not produce typhoid fever, or dysentery, or any affection of the kind.
Marsh miasmata, or the effluvia arising from stagnant water or marshy ground, when acted upon by heat, are the most frequent causes of this malady.
The effluvia from hot asphalt bore no resemblance to the salt-laden air that rattled the Venetian blinds of the big bedroom to which he was assigned.
Moreover, observations show that the noxious effluvia with which the air becomes polluted under such circumstances constitute or contain the morbific agent.
Murchison states that twenty out of twenty-five boys were affected with purging and vomiting from inhaling the effluvia from the contents of an old drain near their school-room.
He made an equal mistake in the Morbetto, where, though not with so lavish a hand as Poussin after him, instead of the moral effects of the plague, he has personified the effluvia of putrefaction.
But how much more pernicious effects must the putrefaction of bodies dead of the plague have, since in this disorder the simple effluvia from the sick are so fatal to persons in health?
So great a quantity of these fish were ejected from the volcano of Imbaburu in 1691, that fevers, which prevailed at the period, were attributed to the effluvia arising from the putrid animal matter.
The Act directed that:-- "A factory or workshop should be kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, or other nuisance.
Boyle's general expression, for both endemial and epidemic maladies, is that they are due to subterranean effluvia sent up into the air.
Fustiness was favoured by the window-tax; a tenement-house was apt to be pervaded by the excremental effluvia from the "vault" at the bottom of the stair.
For without doubt, if the points of cleanliness and free air have been greatly neglected, the putrid effluvia which the prisoners bring with them in their clothes etc.
The first hypothesis tried was that of scarlatina on the dairyman's premises; the effluvia of a scarlatinal patient might have become mixed with the milk.
Willan, 1801: "The passage filled with putrid excremental or other abominable effluvia from a vault at the bottom of the staircase.
A hot summer in former times raisedeffluvia from the ground such as the modern residents have no experience of.
Here was undoubtedly a great disturbance of soil and of subsoil, almost certainly attended with the discharge of effluvia or miasmata into the air, as in other great earthquakes.
The inhabitants of particular places are peculiarly subject to particular diseases, owing to their manner of living, or to the air andeffluvia of the earth and waters.
Delpech to make some other trials: several persons ill of fever, were placed successively in his magazine of cinchona, and they were all speedily cured, simply by the effluvia of the bark.
The carnivorous and often herbivorous insects render another important service to man by consuming dead and decaying animal and vegetable matter, the decomposition of which would otherwise fill the air with effluvia noxious to health.
The most probable cause appeared to me, a sudden and continued eruption of sulphuric effluvia from the volcano; or else, by some unusually heavy gale of wind or hurricane, the trees had been drenched with salt water to their roots.
A few hours after Quid's death, the body emitted certain effluvia denoting the necessity of immediate interment.
From that time she could not bear the effluvia of the human body, and rose up into trees and on the highest towers with incredible lightness, there to watch and pray.
The pestilential effluvia arising from the dreadful mass was so overpowering that both shrank back, faint and sick, after a moment's survey.
The huge door swung back; but nothing was visible but a sort of black velvet pall, and effluvia much stronger than sweet.
To destroy theeffluvia from drains, sewers, cesspools, &c.
The ward was filled with an effluvia that caused my heart to heave with painful qualms.
That alone could not be sufficient--could not contend with the more imperious attraction, the subtle effluvia stealing out of the north and appealing to the ruling passion which animated the frantic winged things below him.
The subtle effluviapermeating the night air for miles around might have guided these messengers into the German trenches had not a nearer and more imperious perfume annihilated it.
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