But at present, in the transition state of the science, it would hardly be justifiable to classify typhoid with a typically miasmatic disease like malaria.
It may happen in the future that typhoid will be classified strictly as a miasmatic disease.
London, must of course be very much a theoretical question; "but it is very remarkable that diseases which are not distinctly miasmatic, do become much more severe in a miasmatic district.
In certain cases it seems to be attracted and absorbed by bodies of water lying in the course of such winds as waft it from the miasmatic source.
But though our prejudices are in favour of a simple miasmatic source of ague, as its sole cause, there are some who believe in its infectious nature.
Under the term remedial agents, I shall include all those causes, whether natural or artificial, which tend to neutralize or destroy the germs of infection, or miasmatic poison, whether this be effected out of or within the body.
It far exceeds the limit of conjecture, to what extent the dilution of miasmatic or contagious matter may be carried, and the poison yet be capable of committing in a short time the most frightful ravages.
Only the boldest and most persistent explorers ever have set foot in its tangled and miasmatic haunts.
This action is held by this able writer to be almost wholly chemical, and he earnestly recommends the plantation of groves, at least of belts of trees, as an effectual protection against the miasmatic influence of marshes.
The "Golden Medical Discovery" not only has the merit of being a certain antidote for miasmatic diseases, but is pleasant to the taste, a matter of no small importance, especially when administered to children.
The effect of starvation was so strong that miasmatic disease could not gain a lodgment in the system, although every other condition was favorable to its production.
These deltas of the Southern States are among the greater miasmatic foyers of the world, and are as deadly in their miasms as the Campagna of Italy or the Sunderbunds of Hindostan.
It is said that miasmatic valleys in Algeria and Portugal, and a part of the unhealthy Roman Campagna, have been made more salubrious by planting groves of these trees.
The next miasmatic generator is sycosis, or the disposition to warty excrescences; but this source of disease Hahnemann does not consider so prolific as syphilis, or his favourite psora.
I mean only that he might catch a fever with a chill addition if he lay carelessly in some miasmatic swamp on some hunting expedition, or that, in time of cholera, he might have, like other men, to struggle with the enemy.
To the trunks of enormous trees the fanciful orchids, the well-loved daughters of fever, the children of a miasmatic atmosphere, quaint vegetable butterflies, suspend themselves in seeming flight.
Madness rises from the swamps with the miasmatic exhalations at night.
It is very hard to make fog and miasmatic exhalations, even when made partly luminous with rhetoric, attractive to the intellect that loves headlands and mountain-tops.
It rises there, gorgeous and useless, on its miasmatic site, with an air of conscious bravado--a florid advertisement of the superabundance of faith.
The turbid stream sweeps along without a sound, and the pale tenements hang above it like a vague miasmatic exhalation.
Frazer has the merit of being the first to point out the real meaning of this strange list of disabilities, and to explain the mystic or miasmatic origin of some of them.
Hence it follows, that the decomposition of organic matters ought to be considered as one of the principal causes of the corruption of the air by miasmatic substances.
One balloon filled with ozonified air, would suffice to disinfect 540 balloons filled with miasmatic air.
It was also considered to be of a miasmatic character, which, with the previous feature, seemed to assimilate it in nature with typhus fever and other diseases of the miasmatic contagious group.
Other miasmatic agencies are not without importance.
The steamy sea murk was thickening, and came rolling in from seaward in damp, hot miasmatic puffs.
And an enemy may be likened to a swamp with its miasmaticvapors and noisome vermin.
The sun has sunk beneath the ridge of black rocks, and in the brief gloaming the miasmatic vapours seem to roll up thicker than before.
Apart from the evil influence exerted on Europeans by climatic and miasmatic drawbacks, the mountain of mystery that has been reared around the dread name of Upas has but little foundation in fact.
