Sketches of Brazil Author:Robert Dundas General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: Churchill Subjects: Medical / General Medical / Epidemiology Medical / Pathology Medical / Public Health Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy ... more »the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE III. Objectofpresent Section Oflectures -- Uncertainty Of Theories As To Nature And Cause Of Fever Examination Of Doctrine Of Lancisi, Showing Him Not To Be The Author Of The Modern Exclusive THEORY OF MARSH MlASM HlS ORIGINAL WoRK Scarcely Read Hls Views Ox The U. nity Of The Marsh Poison -- Its Action On The Nervous Or Sanguiferous System -- Two Kinds Of Marsh Poison DESCRIBED BY HIM -- On THE SUPPOSED PRODUCTION Of Its Effects In Only One Mode Three Modes Described By Lancisi Marsh Poison Not The Cause Of Intermittent Fever Alone -- Animalcular Theories Of Varro, Columella, And Vltuuvius -- Lancisi's Statement, That A Wind May Produce Ague -- Summary Of His Views On Marsh Poison And Its EFFECTS. Gentlemen, -- The chief object contemplated in the present section of our lectures is to lay before you certain facts which have come under my own especial notice, during OBJECT OF PRESENT SECTION. 113 a period of upwards of twenty-eight years, spent in extensive and active practice in Brazil, and in the public service in different regions of the globe. These facts are completely at variance with the received doctrine that marsh poison is the immediate cause of intermittent fever or ague. I must at the same time plead for some indulgence in entering on the discussion of a subject so extensive, and which has engaged the attention of our medical brethren in almost every quarter of the world. The facts which I have to lay before you are plain, simple, unvarnished;...« less