T. To a Warm Wind in Winter, The Lover-Student, The Homeward Bound, To a Humming Bird, The Star over the Water, (Number - 443 205 | The Outlaw, 315 Traits of the Tea-Party, 548 The Structure of the Eye, 602 The Female Student, The Book of Gems, The Indifferent, The French Mind on Religion, The Breath of Spring, The Tree of Life, The Streams, The Seminoles, The Heights of Abraham, The Dying Poet, The Three Editors of China, The Landing of Columbus, 12 110 5 Thoughts, etc., 6 The Drama, Historically, etc., 7 The Lapse of Years, 13 23 To my Cousin, 32 33 The American in England, 87 91 The Partisan, 130 144 150 180 111 140 198 203 312 313 411 418 483 The Eronaut, 491 The Philosophy of Living, 493 The Hopes of Life, 534 The Water Lily, T. 181 208 The Rescue, or the Inundation of The Old World and the New, Terrible Tractoration, The American Lyceum, V. Valuable Catalogue, View of the World, W. Woman, What's in a Name? 217 246 261 266 284 295 Yale Magazine, Works of Miss Edgeworth, WHITTIER, J. G., Y. 300 301 408 314 315 316 327 357 358 363 377 403 412 421 452 453 456 466 469 475 476 500 525 526 558 574 590 602 613 627 628 638 644 316 316 633 276 521 532 549 314 THE KNICKERBOCKER. VOL. VII. JANUARY, 1836. No. 1. PERIODICITY OF DISEASES. IN a former communication, we gave a detailed account of certain experiments which tended to prove that 'all nature was not alive,' 'that all animated beings were not mere congeries of minute living bodies. By a number of well-conducted experiments, the result proved, that all the interstices of space, whether of the water, air, earth, or space- whether of inert or animated matter were filled with animal and vegetable life: that these minute animalculæ exist in these interstices, and are attached to their surfaces, both in the larvæ and perfect state: that even the living human eye, is filled with them, their motion and presence being plainly discernible. Of the substances which formed the base of two hundred and eighty-eight experiments, honey and oil alone appeared to be exempt from the action of these minute and almost invisible class of beings.' These being facts, on the accuracy of which the strictest reliance can be placed, the natural question then occurs of the duration of life of these animalcules, or atoms. If the following remarks can throw any new light on this subject, we trust that the French savans will take the matter into their own hands, and pursue the investigation zealously. We are confident that it is within the power of science to set this question at rest. All fevers, of whatever type they may be, whether endemics, epidemics, or accidental, have a definite term of action, varying but slightly from the regular period. Fevers of a peculiar class, such as are denominated chills-and-fever, return periodically. They occur generally, every third day; but when the system is weakened by repeated attacks, they appear sometimes every day, and in extreme cases, twice in the twenty-four hours. These are the simplest kinds of fever, and are more under the control of medical skill than those of a different nature. There are a variety of fevers which can take possession of the animal frame at pleasure; some few of a different character can never disturb the system but once: these are measles, whooping-cough, mumps, small-pox, and chicken-pox. The period of their influence over the human frame can be ascertained with singular exactness, owing to their character being contagious or infectious. The term of life, in man, varies according to circumstances, but the average among all civilized nations is the same. This uniformity is easily accounted for, as the organic structure throughout the whole human family is the same, and it is only among barbarous nations, where there are great extremes of climate, that man does not live out his term the threescore years and ten. With inferior animals the case is different, as the variety is endless, and as we descend in the scale, VOL. VII. 1 |
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