An Enquiry into the Origin and Intimate Nature of Malaria
by Thomas Wilson
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- Author
- Wilson, Thomas, active 1795-1858
- Title
- An Enquiry Into the Origin and Intimate Nature of Malaria
- Credits
- Produced by Thiers Halliwell, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RC: Medicine: Internal medicine
- Subject
- Malaria
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60338
- Release Date
- September 22, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND INTIMATE NATURE OF MALARIA.
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- 3.CHAPTER I. MALARIA—ITS SUPPOSED ORIGIN.
- 4.CHAPTER II. THEORIES OF MACCULLOCH.
- 5.CHAPTER III. THE ORIENTAL PLAGUE—QUESTION OF CONTAGION.
- 6.CHAPTER IV. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM, THE LAND OF MARSHES AND OF FEVER, RECLAIMED AND RENDERED SALUBRIOUS BY THE ENERGIES OF A FREE PEOPLE.
- 7.CHAPTER V. ON THE PRESUMED SOURCES OF MALARIA.
- 8.CHAPTER VI. THE LIVING WORLD—ITS EXTENT AS REVEALED BY THE MICROSCOPE—HOW ITS REMAINS ARE DISPOSED OF WHEN LIFE HAS CEASED.
- 9.CHAPTER VII. ON THE DECOMPOSITION AND METAMORPHOSIS OF ANIMAL BEINGS, AND ON THE INFLUENCE THEY EXERCISE OVER THE SOIL AS A HABITAT FOR MAN.
- 10.CHAPTER VIII. EARTH, AIR, AND WATER IN RELATION TO MAN—HOW MODIFIED BY HIM—RESULTS OF THAT MODIFICATION—ACTION AND REACTION.
- 11.CHAPTER IX. ON POISONS, MIASMS AND CONTAGIONS.
- 12.CHAPTER X. ON THE SERVITUDE OF RIVERS.
- 13.CONCLUDING CHAPTER. AUTHOR’S THEORY OF MALARIA. — CONCLUSION.
- 14.APPENDIX. — FOOTNOTES:
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