White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-04-11
MsefnI aud Curious.
CnILLs M rEvKn.


Halle Journal Of HeaIiA, Tor November, has the
following ON the above subject:
LII. Hall says: 1t very generally prevails IN
the fall Of the year large sections Of country
Scattering eases arc liab3r 70 occur anywhere.
4 These arise from individual ipsliscretsOns; but
where large numbers of persons in communities
are attacked, there some gcnernl cause must pre-
| vail This causs has been attributed for ages to
"miasman an emanation FROM the earth so subtle
in its character, that for more than century the
greatest skill the ablest chemists was not able
to detect its nature define its quality bottle
of air taken from the most deadly localities was
submitted to the most careful and searching ana
lysis without the detection Of anything solid,
| bottle but air, thin air. But the microscope has
to the aid Of the alernlc, and has discovered
| in this, the miasmatic air, multitudes Of Lying
things. When bottles of this air were taken from
the banks Of a Southern bayo., and placed in the
chamber of man in Chicago by DIR. Salisbury, he
was taken with chils and fever in few days,
| and these living things were found on his tongue
and within his mouth; while not a single one was
to be found all over the city, except in that one
mau's mouth, in his chamber, and in the bottles.
Whether this life is animal or vegetable, is mat
ter of dispute, yet it seems capable of producing
chills and fever; but whether animal vegetable,
the laws which regulate the action of MASH on
the human system remain the same, and the mode
of production, or the causes of the generation of
this miasm, remain unchanged; and these laws
have been determined and described with wonder
| full accuracy. This miasm results from warmth,
moisture and vegetation combined; vegetable
matter will not decay unless there is moisture,
it will dry up; it will remain under water thou
sand years without decay, as witness the wooden
piers of ancient bridges, sound To-day as when
they were driven by Adams grandson, or somebody
else who lived q long time ago. The heat must
act on the moisture before miasm becomes a pro-
duct. This miasm, to be injurious, must be taken
into the system by breathing into the lungs, or
by swallowing into the stomach. But cold, as
the first frosts- which everywhere known to
it heavy that it falls to the surface of the EARTH
and can be neither breathed nor swallOwed on
the other hand, heat SO rarefies the air in which
this masm is contained, that it c arries it up to-
wards the clouds, where it is no more breathed
than if it laid Immediately ON the surface of the
earth. Hence heat and cold are antagonistic to
the disease-prOducing effects of miasm the
human body. To freeze it out is expensive, but to
antagonize it by heat is possible, is everywhere
practicable.
From an hour after shutdown to an hour before
SUNRISE the cold causes it to settle the surface
of the earth. An hour after sunrise and until an
hour before sunset general rule, it is too high
above heads to injure us, in consequence of
the heat of the weather.
As the heat must be over eighty degrees for
several days to generate miasm, it follows that the
time, during which We are required to battle
with it, is at sunrise and sunset during the spring
and fall months. But to make it safe from the
first blade of grass in spring until the killing frOsts
of autumn, dress by n cheerful blazing fire, and
take breakfast before going outside of the door;
come home before shutdown, take your supper
before its setting by the same cheerful blazing
hearth, then go and do what you please. You
may sleep under a tree, q swinging limb,
and defy fever and ague for a century, if You
only keep warm, abundantly warm.