 The stench which arises from this and the mud together is intolerably offensive, and from this source the plague, constantly springing up every year, preys upon the inhabitants, and is stopped only by the return of the Nile, the overflowing of which washes...  A Treatise on Fever - Page 360by Southwood Smith - 1830 - 436 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...is gradually dried up, and the people throw into it all manner of filth, carrion, offal, andsoon ; that the stench which arises from this, and the mud...filth ; that in Ethiopia the swarms of locusts are BO prodigious that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring the fruits of the earth, and when they... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...andsoou ; thai the stench which arises from this, and the mud together, is intolerably offensire ; and that from this source the plague constantly springing...washes away this load of filth ; that in Ethiopia tho swarms of locusts are so prodigious that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring the fruits... | |
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - Charities - 1838 - 386 pages
...offal, and so on. The stench which arises from this and the mud together is intolerably offensive; and from this source the plague, constantly springing...overflowing of which washes away this load of filth. In Ethiopia the swarms of locusts are so prodigious that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 516 pages
...that from this source the рЬ^и. constantly springing up every year, preys upon the irib-. bitants, and is stopped only by the return of the Nile, the...overflowing of which, washes away this load of filth ; th.v ,n Ethiopia the swarms of locusts are so prodigious that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring... | |
 | George Alfred Walker - Burial - 1839 - 408 pages
...offal, and so on. The stench which arises from this and the mud together is intolerably offensive, and from this source the plague, constantly springing...overflowing of which washes away this load of filth. In Ethiopia, the swarms of locusts are so prodigious, that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring... | |
 | 1847 - 456 pages
...every year, preys upon the inhabitants, and i stopped only by the return of the Nile, the over flowing of which washes away this load of filth That in Ethiopia the swarms of locusts are so pro digious that they sometimes cause a famine by de vouring the fruits of the earth, and when they... | |
 | Hygiene - 1850 - 342 pages
...carrion, and offal ; the stench which arises from this and the mud together is intolerably offensive, and from this source the plague, constantly springing...overflowing of which washes away this load of filth. In Ethiopia the swarms of locusts are so prodigious, that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring... | |
 | Thomas Hawkes Tanner - 1866 - 864 pages
...carrion, and offtil ; the stench which arises from this and the mud together is intolerably offensive, and from this source the plague, constantly springing...the overflowing of which washes away this load of fifth. In Ethiopia the swarms of locusts are so prodigious that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring... | |
 | Thomas Hawkes Tanner - Medicine - 1869 - 692 pages
...carrion, and offal ; the stench which arises from this and the mud together is intolerably offensive, and from this source the plague, constantly springing...overflowing of which washes away this load of filth. In Ethiopia the swarms of locusts are so prodigious that they sometimes cause a famine by devouring... | |
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