[Gutenberg 60338] • An Enquiry Into the Origin and Intimate Nature of Malaria

Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Origin and Intimate Nature of Malaria

Medical authors of the highest repute are exceedingly vague in their ideas respecting the nature of malaria; nor will it ever be otherwise until the question be taken up by the strictly scientific. Thus, Sir John Forbes says, in his Holiday As the unknown thing which we term malaria or miasma of marshes, under certain circumstances gives rise at one time to simple ague, at another to a fatal remittent fever, and produces at times a morbid enlarge ment of the spleen, at others diseases of the liver, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.