Malarious Fevers and Rainfall in Rajpootana
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The drying of saturated soil, and the occurrence of socalled malarious disease, have, from very early periods, been connected as cause and effect; and that invisible, imponderable, chemically unrecognizable agent we call malaria, has been supposed to be more freely evolved the greater the ground saturation. Thus drying marshes have been esteemed more unhealthy than either ground covered altogether with water,
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