Excerpt from Malaria: An Essay on the Production and Propagation of This Poison, and on the Nature and Localities of the Places by Which It Is Produced; With an Enumeration of the Diseases Caused by It, and of the Means of Preventing or Diminishing Them This is the unseen, and still unknown, poison to which Italy applies the term that l have borrowed, Malaria. This is the cause of fevers both ordinary and intermitting; but it is the cause also of other disorders, scarcely less important in point of num bers and of mortal power. Such are dysentery and cholera; and yet all these united form but one portion of the enormous mass of disease, of suffering, and of mortality dependent on this single cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.