Word: malaria
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...cases could the fatal disease be attributed to any exposure or over-exertion incident to student life or to residence in Cambridge. The general healthiness of the University dormitories is remarkable. There has been no epidemic therein of fever, diphtheria, dysentery, or any zymotic disease for many years, and malaria (except in imported cases) is unknown...
...celebrated, we are told, for its salubrious climate. The heats of summer are there less intense than in many places farther north, while this elysium is yet far enough south to escape the "rigors of northern winters." "At the same time the clear, dry air, entirely free from the malaria which infects so many parts of the West and Southwest, acts as a clarifier of the blood, and a gentle tonic to the energies of persons enfeebled by long inhaling the pestiferous air of ague-breeding regions." One would fancy it a charming place for fellows obliged to leave college...