10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIASMAL»
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miasmal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
miasmal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Modern Dilemma: Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Humanism
It is not easy to construe the import of the “True Church's” condition, “wrapt in the
old miasmal mist.” Clearly the appellation “True Church” is ironic, but are we to
understand “miasmal mist” as a condition of ignorance, apostasy, or corruption?
2
A Treatise on the Botanic Theory and Practice of Medicine: ...
Hence, persons sleeping in elevated chambers, are much less apt to contract
miasmal diseases than such as are lodged on tho ground floor. Drs. Blane and
Lempriere, in their report to the Secretary of War, concerning the Walcheren fever
, ...
3
A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine
that the relative proportions of animal and vegetable matter which may enter into
miasmal exhalations, will determine the violence of their influence, and modify its
results on the system. Plausible as these sentiments may be, it should not be ...
4
Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
118:20 the prisoner soul, miasmal-distillant miasma = “infectious or noxious
exhalations from putrescent organic matter” (OED). The soul, a prisoner of our
corporeality, is at conception a swampy concentration of rotting matter. 118:20
wroils ...
Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk, 2010
5
The Theatre of Marina Carr: "before Rules was Made"
13 | Rising Out Of The Miasmal Mists: Marina Carr's Ireland Claudia W. Harris
Playwright Marina Carr seems to be answering a resounding 'Yes' to Marianne
McDonald's question: 'Does there come a time in a nation's history — a crisis of ...
Cathy Leeney, Anna McMullan, 2003
6
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Be this, however, as it may, certain it is, that the yellow fever, though of miasmal
origin, is not the offspring of the efiiuvia of ordinary marshes, or issuing from the
margin of streams, ponds, lakes, open fiat countries or savannas, or of swampy or
...
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The New York Journal of Medicine
the year when the air is free from all noxious exhalations, yet they generally
assume that grade and type which is common to malarial fevers, and they
generally fall most intensely on those living nearest the focus of miasmal
emanations ...
8
New York Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences
The argument then stands thus : The cause of all idiopathic fevers being a morbid
poison of miasmal origin (animal or vegetable), all fevers so originating must be
considered as essentially the same disease, whatever varieties they may ...
9
Yellow Fever, Considered in Its Historical, Pathological, ...
But it is not the less certain, that diseases by infection in different or the same
country — all arising from miasmal emanations — present differences of a more
or less notable character. The jungle fever of India is not exactly the same in form
as ...
10
The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine
The late Dr. Edward Miller, of New-York, in his ' Attempt to deduce a
Nomenclature of certain Febrile and Pestilential Diseases from the nature and
origin of their remote causes,' published in 1804, divided the miasmal poisons
into two species ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIASMAL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
miasmal is used in the context of the following news items.
How often do you say you love your country?
So, how does one shake off that miasmal thinking of ubiquitous melancholy and pervasive angst against any and all things? One word: Love. «thebahamasweekly.com, Jun 15»
Lapid: The UN has Lost Its Mind
When Berlin, Moscow, London, and Paris were miasmal forest and swamp, there was a thriving Jewish community here. It gave something to ... «The Jewish Press, Jun 15»
Night Viper Streaming New Self-Titled Track
Night Viper features past and present members of Church Of Misery, Horisont, Miasmal, Mud Walk, and The Order Of Israfel. Pre-order info can ... «Metal Underground, May 15»
Yoda, Space Hefner and 'amorous sweats': Read the original …
His Yoda, a galactic gnome or maybe a light-year leprechaun, lives in a snaky and miasmal swamp but it doesn't appear to bother him at all. «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
Which wine should you drink with grasshopper on toast?
I've been eating snails and molluscs since I was in short trousers, I love frogs' legs, devour cheeses of miasmal pungency. I'm not put off by ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
Is Nigeria too big to fail?
Will any foreign militaries dare to venture into this miasmal mess? The UN Special Representative for West Africa, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has ... «Daily Maverick, Jan 15»
Bringing HP Lovecraft to the big screen
How was it that what used to be the Gardner farm West of Arkham became the "blasted heath" - five acres of grey desolation, miasmal odours ... «Den Of Geek, Oct 14»
Exhumed Kicking Off New Tour Dates
From there Exhumed will return to Europe for further live devastation alongside Aborted, Origin and Miasmal. See confirmed shows below. «Metal Underground, Oct 14»
Martyrdöd: Swedish Blackened Crustpunks Return in a 'Baptism of …
Featuring members of Skitsystem, Miasmal, and Agrimonia, among other local heavyweights, the quartet breaks the mold of classic Swedish ... «Noisey, Aug 14»
Septic Man review
After plunging into the depths of some miasmal sewers, Septic Man unclogs the drains, which were stuffed with corpses. No health hazard there ... «Den of Geek, Aug 14»
