paludal

• The specific ferment which engenders those fevers by its accumulation in the atmosphere which we breathe is not exclusively of paludal origin, and still less is it a product of putrefaction. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
• As long as the paludal theory held sway, the chemical interpretation of this identity of the product in every latitude was easy. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
• It is sometimes called paludal fever, and at others la grippe, and it is epidemic rather than contagious. —  Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
• The fact that an art which springs from such a marshy soil may, like certain paludal plants, be —  The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
• A negro will walk naked through a forest in which every drop of water is impregnated with millions of paludal germs, which teems with insects, the bites of which produce malignant abcesses, and where the temperature reaches fifty degrees Centigrade in the shade. —  Youth and Egolatry

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