The germs, the miasmata of the disease, insinuate themselves not only upon animals and men, but they shed their virus upon the grass of the fields, the walls of the stalls and stables, and every agricultural utensil.
Were it not for the miasmata which infect the atmosphere, the valleys of Aroa and of Yaracuy would perhaps be more populous than those of Aragua.
The lake, the waters of which appear yellow by transmitted light, is dry in the season of great heat, and the Indians themselves are unable to resist the miasmata rising from the mud.
The air, purer and less charged with miasmata and heterogeneous emanations, becomes at the same time drier.
In the stagnant air of the Upper Orinoco the chemical affinities act more powerfully, and more deleteriousmiasmata are formed.
It is common enough for travellers to feel no effects from miasmata till, on arriving in a purer atmosphere, they begin to enjoy repose.
Miasmata of some kind are the cause of yellow fever.
Marsh miasmata are generally the cause of intermittent fevers.
Again, if it were the miasmata arising upon a marshy neighbourhood that militated against the healthiness of the prison, there should be prevalent other diseases which marsh miasmataconfessedly engender.
Some such adaptation of the doctrine of miasmata was made two generations later by Dr John Arbuthnot in his 'Essay concerning the Effects of Air upon Human Bodies,' the immediate occasion of which was the London influenza of 1733.
The miasmata of an apartment, to be strong enough to become contagious, must arrive at a certain degree of concentration.
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.
It was Sydenham's intimate friend Robert Boyle who worked out the hypothesis of subterraneous miasmata as a cause of epidemic (and endemic) diseases.
Volcanoes are on the whole made more of than earthquakes, Webster's object being to find evidence of "electrical stimulus," and not of material miasmata discharged into the air.
For three weeks before the earthquake the atmosphere had been full of a heavy sulphurous fog, so that miasmata were rising from the soil by some unwonted pressure before the actual cataclysm.
The disordered motions of the stomach frequently seem to be the cause or primary seat of fever, as where contagious miasmata are swallowed with the saliva, and where fever is produced by sea-sickness, which I once saw.
Ancient philosophers seem to have believed, that the contagious miasmata in their warm climates affected horses and dogs previous to mankind.
The baneful effects of marsh miasmata on the human system is well known, engendering intermittent and remittent fevers, dysenteries, and visceral obstructions.
We are told that, during the night, noxious gases and poisonous miasmata emanate from the soil, and that plants throw off excrementitious matters, which assume a gaseous form, and are more or less destructive.
When these begin to grow putrid, every one knows what dreadful miasmata exhale from them, and taint the air we breathe.
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