MALARIA

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 19
(Ital.maV aria, a bad air.) The exhalation of marshy districts, which produces intermittent fevers. This term has now become of general application; but it was long restricted to that district of Italy extending from Leghorn to Terracina in one direction, and from the sea to the A pennines in another. Even in the time of Horace, Rome was of deserted the malaria.two months in the year, on account of the dangers [s. 719]
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