10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EFFLUVIA»
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effluvia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Experience of Science
The "Effluvia" Theory The transmission of contagious diseases was frequently
imputed to "effluvia" given off in the exhalations of the patient or from bodies of
the dead, and subsequently inhaled into the lungs of a healthy person. It would
be a ...
M. Goldstein, I.F. Goldstein, 1984
2
Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language
Language for the taboos on sex and bodily effluvia But Love has pitched his
mansion in The place of excrement . . . (Yeats 1965, Crazy Jane talks with the
Bishop, lines 15f) The birth canal from which we emerge lies between the uretha
and ...
Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, 2006
3
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early ...
Note that the chains of effluvia do not pull bodies together mechanically, as
would Fabri's filaments, but provide the path and the incentive that prompt them
to continue to move themselves. Antipathy or repulsion follows the same principle
, the ...
4
Opera, en anglois, avec notes par P. Shaw
Very ponderous bodies yield effluvia. P- 398 0. Very solid, hard, and ponderous
bodies yield them. 399 7. And even such as are fixed. ib. 8 . The atmospheres of
bodies excited by gentle heat. 400 9. Many more bodies may emit effluvia^ and ...
5
Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science
In case of such procedure, it is necessary, not only to show that the trade or
business complained of " is a nuisance, or causes effluvia injurious to the health
of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood," but also that the person complained
against ...
Sir William Crookes, 1775
6
Memoirs: Being a New Abridgment of the Philosophical ...
Several Experiments, stewing the strange EffeBs of the Effluvia, of Glals,
froduceable on its Motion and Attrition $ by Mr. Francis Hauksbee. Phil. Trans. N°
309. p. 2372. Experiment I. containing farther observations on the attrition of
gloss.
Royal Society (Great Britain), Benjamin Baddam, 1740
7
The American practice condensed, or, The family physician: ...
This fact shows that a deleterious gas or effluvia proceeded from the water and
generated the disease. 2. Human Effluvia. — By this term we understand such a
secretion from the body of a person labouring under disease as is capable of ...
8
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of ...
sion of the electric effluvia excited, and which visibly runs off from the end of the
prime conductor in a stream, and as they are in like manner carried oft" from all
bodies hung to it, those effluvia which run off from the end of the syphon, being ...
sion of the eiectric effluvia excited, and which visibly runs off from the end of the
prime conductor in a stream, and as they are in like manner carried off' from all
bodies hung to it, those effluvia which run off from the end of the syphon, being ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), Charles Hutton, George Shaw, 1809
10
The Philosophical Transactions (from the Year ... to the ...
... still continued fluid without such a Mixture. We are taught by Chemistry to mix
Fluids together, which immediately coalesce into a Solid. When Brimstone
Matches are burning, the Effluvia of the Sulphur repel each other to great
Distances ...
Royal Society (London), 1747
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EFFLUVIA»
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effluvia is used in the context of the following news items.
Deer vs. Iguana: Hamptons Deer Problem Beats Iguana Issues
Iguanas make a huge mess, mostly by swishing their tails, leaving corncobs, crushed tomatoes, beer cans and other effluvia. Others have to ... «Dan's Papers, Jul 15»
Valérie Belin's Plastic Bodies
... their images overlaid with all manner of digital effluvia. It's no longer news that beauty is a construction, that fictions can give rise to the real. «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
Charleston Massacre And The Legacy Of Denmark Vesey – OpEd
... the human blood; these poor wretches are then in a furnace of stinking putrid effluvia: a more horrible employment can hardly be imagined'.”. «Eurasia Review, Jul 15»
For $350K You Can Spend Eternity In Manhattan
... off to Ward's Island, relieving neighbors of the much-bemoaned “effluvia” that rose from the ground. The Waldorf Astoria rose in their place. «Gothamist, Jun 15»
Battle flag's meaning extends beyond the honoring of Southern …
... wretches are then in a furnace of stinking putrid effluvia: a more horrible employment can hardly be imagined.” (Original spelling corrected.) «Cape Gazette, Jun 15»
Times Critics' Guide: What to Do This Week
... his gift for psychological observation, his sure sense of craft, his ability to distill nuanced emotional truths from the effluvia of ordinary life. «New York Times, Jun 15»
The Parting Gifts Convicts Gave Loved Ones Before Being Shipped …
... so great a height that the pannels of the cabin, and the buttons on the clothes of the officers, were turned nearly black by the noxious effluvia. «Atlas Obscura, Jun 15»
Hammondsport "Washing Machine" Spotlighs Women's Health …
And those floor-length skirts dragged along through everything, picking up dirt, ticks, and the effluvia of a thousand horses (plus a few oxen and ... «Corning Leader, Jun 15»
What Glastonbury really means
As you read this, all my best friends are groin-deep in the emotional effluvia of the closing day of the festival, miles away from roads, baths, real ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
At the National Gallery, Caillebotte's intersection with greatness
... of the suburban fields of Gennevilliers Plain, an enticing artificial landscape that was fertilized with the effluvia of the Parisian sewer system. «Washington Post, Jun 15»
