Note 104 — Chapter IX · OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEATH OF THE LUNGS, OVER THE GENERAL DEATH OF THE BODY.
F. Gold translation
The composition of some of these vapours is better known at the present day; but there are others in which our means of analysis have been unable to detect the deleterious principle; thus in the malaria, which has depopulated the country in the neighbourhood of Rome, our chemists have as yet only found as constant elements, those which enter into the composition of atmospheric air.