Wanderings in the Roman campagna . at a later time, became hotbedsof malaria. Speaking of Fidense, Tellenae, Collatia,Antemnie, etc., the writeis of the Augustan age attestthat no vestige was left of them : periere sine vestigio !We may gather from these facts the belief that malaria Discovered by the uuthor in 1885. See arid Kxcavalion.! ofAncicni Rome, p. 44fi. Dr. Breisliilv, in a memoir on tlie Physical Topoffraphy of Rome,quoted by Brocchi, p. 110, contends that the depression of the Fonmi,surrounded by tlie Palatine, Ca^lian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal, anolCajjitoline, was ori
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . at a later time, became hotbedsof malaria. Speaking of Fidense, Tellenae, Collatia,Antemnie, etc., the writeis of the Augustan age attestthat no vestige was left of them : periere sine vestigio !We may gather from these facts the belief that malaria Discovered by the uuthor in 1885. See arid Kxcavalion.! ofAncicni Rome, p. 44fi. Dr. Breisliilv, in a memoir on tlie Physical Topoffraphy of Rome,quoted by Brocchi, p. 110, contends that the depression of the Fonmi,surrounded by tlie Palatine, Ca^lian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal, anolCajjitoline, was originally a volcanic crater. THE LAND OF SATURN 5 existed in a mild form at the time of the foundation ofthe thirty colonies of Alba Longa; that its virulenceincreased after the extinction of volcanic life in Latium ;and that at the beginning of the second century IjeforeChrist it had become endemic, causing a great diminu-tion in the jdiysical and moral energies of the Romanrace. The earliest hints about intermittent fever in Roman. Telleii;r, one of the niineil early cities of Latium literature are to be found in Plautus Curculio (i, 17) :Did the fever leave you yesterday or the day before ?and in Terences Hecyra (iii. ii. 22) : What is thycase? Fever. Quotidian. So they say. Cato, DeReRustica (157), distinctly mentions as sym])toms of theague a black l)ile and a turgid liver. Pliny (vii, 50)says that the excitement of fighting a successful battleaeainst the Allobrooi and the Arverni on the banks of Liiigi Canina, Siille trenta colonie Albane. in Atti Acradcmia d Ar-ch cologia, March, 1839. 6 WANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA the Isere, in the year 21 b. c, freed the Roman general,Q. Fabius Maximus, from the quartan fever. But thenearest approach to the modern theory of infectionthrough the microbes of ague is to be found in VarrosDe Re Rustica, where he contends that in marshydistricts prosper insects so infinitesimal in size thatno human eye can detect their presence. These mi
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