On the cryptogamous origin of malarious and epidemic fevers / by J.K. Mitchell.

Date:
1849
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    ON THE CRYPTOGAMOUS ORIGIN OF MALARIOUS AND EPIDEMIC FEVERS. LECTURE I. THEORIES OF MALARIA. The most ancient authors allude to the noxious influence of the air of marshes and stagnant pools. Some of them indulge in speculations respecting the immediate cause of its morbific power; and here and there, in their Avritings, may be detected, more or less vaguely expressed by them, the opinions, by the publication of which, Lancisi, less than two centuries ago, acquired so much reputation. Ilis treatise de noxiis pahidum eijiiiviis, gave consistency and authority to the impression of the miasmatists, and the loose idea of a former age, became the accepted sentiment of the eighteenth century. By degrees, the medical pro- fession, almost everyAvhere, adopted the theory of the causation of periodical fevers by marsh air, and even ascribed the poison to a decomposition of the vegetable remains of low and wet places. After that time (1695), o