Note 178 — Chapter VI
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
The talented Chalin entertains the same conviction, “Obscurum interdum esse vitium aëris, sub pestis initia et menses primos, hoc est argumento: quod cum nec odore tetro gravis, nec turpi colore fœdatus fuerit, sed purus, tenuis, frigidus, qualis in montosis et asperis locis esse solet, et tranquillus, vehementissima sit tamen pestilentia infestaque,” etc. p. 28. The most recent observers of malaria have stated nothing more than this.