Excerpt from On Malaria and Miasmata and Their Influence in the Production of Typhus and Typhoid Fevers, Cholera, and the Exanthemata: Founded on the Fothergillian Prize Essay for 1859In commencing this work, I determined to avoid altogether the occult and mysterious to confess ignorance where knowledge shed no light, and at the same time to try if I could place a firm foot on any point which promised to afford support. I have never swerved from this intention, nor regretted the resolve.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.