The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-15
MALARIA AND VEGETATION.
oxuKRAL noBKRr L. yIELE on THE DISEASE
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oxuERAL noBKRr L. yIELE on THE DISEASES
CAUSED By VEGETATION
General Egbcrt l.. viee read paper before the New
York Academy OF Sciences ~ their rooms, No. o. Madi
soa avcnus last nisht which has q local as well Ms
scientific The subject discussed by General
viee relations between malaria and vegetation
In New York and the vicinity, in laying the.oun-
Tor this the consideration tho relations
isting between tho animal and vegetable kingdoms IN
The lower forms Of organic life The solution OF the
sauscs OF disease especially maaral Diseases General
Vieo believes will he ound IN the parallel lines OF
Seular development in plant lie, where the animal
md vegetable almost IDENTICAL passing
stances from tho one Kingdom into the other with tho
facility OF nero change oi garment
10 the ascending scale Of the great limo OF dcmarca-
Non which rst develops Itself is the all important TACT
HAT the roIuso Of tho Is the lie OF the other
led him to infer that somewhere in this bordeI line
between these two great Kingdoms OF nature There
must be just equilibrium OF the normal elements of
vitality. tho destruction OF which may be tho true
cause Of most OF the evils which have been entailed
upon existence In great Cities said the sur.
roundings OF nature removed aud the equilibrium
Of tho natural forces destroyed by the preponderance
Of animal life.
Malaria, he said, sgninos bad air. while miasma has
been sharply defined injection floating In air;
but no definition, however full or precise, give
anything like an adequate conception OF the wonder
full potentially and universal presence OF the morbiAc
principle which Is known as malaria Miasmatic
malarial diseases include all those specific disorders
which are contagious or which may become epidemic,
and TO those due nearly thrce-ltths of all the
deaths which take place throughout the world. Alter
referring TO the fact that the physical health OF all
human beings improves in the atmosphere of tho
country where vegetation hourshes General vielo
spoke OF Professor Tyndals demonstration that
minute particles oil tho AIR are vital organism de-
veioped under favoring circumstances into actual lv
ing creatures. In this ono simple experiment he
gaid Is tho whole secret OF tagon.
MALARIA IN NEW
In making the local application Of the principles
deliberately laid down General Viele concluded that the
Central Park was itself maiaria bed. There
too lew trees and there too much shubDcry The
shrubbery, no said, prevented the currents Of air
through that vast pleasure ground Inch were ncces-
eary to keep II IN healthful condition, and,
by combining tho foul atmosphere which from
the ponds OF stagnant water In the Park, made bed
OF disease He advocated change In this matter and
also favored the botanical garden AS an element OF
health, as well as OF beauty and interest Trees, he
thought, ought 10 be planted every vacant lot in
The ropols, and every attention ought 10 DO gwen
10 the increase OF vegetation the neighborhond OF
This great CITY, IL viii thus be that learned and
severe General velcs scientific reasoning. his
remedies are simple aud easy OF application.