What is malaria? : and why is it most intense in hot climates? : an enquiry into the nature and cause of the so-called marsh poison, with remarks on the principles to be observed for the preservation of health in tropical climates and malarious districts / by C.F. Oldham.

  • Oldham, C. F. (Charles Frederick)
Date:
1871
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    18i; does it become^ that even a slight degree of chill should be avoided. By the observance of these principles^ instead of futile precautions against an imaginary poison, much may be done to diminish the great prevalence of disease in all malarious countries ; and especially to abate the sickness and mortality, which is so rife amongst white men, in tropical regions. It may perhaps appear scarcely necessary to add, that when men are struggling for life, in a climate for which their organisation is wholly unfitted, it is necessary either for the cure of disease or for the preservation of such health as re- mains to them, that every means, medical and hygienic, should be carefully directed to the support of the vital powers; and that all measures which tend to reduce those powers should be studiously avoided.