§ 1. It has been often remarked, and with great truth, that the world abounds3 with life. In the remains of that which had once lived, which was at one period organic, the illustrious Cuvier and the great school to which he belonged saw the materials of life, the food, in fact, of that which exists; he held that between the inorganic4 and organic worlds there was an impassable gulf5, or in other words, an inconvertibility or a metamorphosis, call it by what name you will. This plausible6 theory, with many others, is now controverted7 by modern chemists, who boldly assert that no organic atoms or molecules8, as such, can serve as food for a plant or an animal. But be this as it may—for chemists admit that the incombustible constituents9 or the salts of the blood, so essential to the nourishment11 or support of animal life, must have passed through organic bodies27—one thing is certain, that the extent of life on the globe can scarcely be imagined. For first, as regards the vegetable kingdom, do we not observe how, as spring and summer advance, the organic beings which during winter had lain dormant12 at the bottom, or deeply entombed in the waters (I speak not of those to be seen at all times on the surface of the earth), rise to the surface, bringing with them countless13 myriads14 of the ova of aquatic15 animals and of those which haunt the surface of the water? Amongst these stand pre-eminent the infusoria or zoophytes; with these the atmosphere also becomes loaded. They form, in fact, the substratum of all animal life, constituting the food not only of animals somewhat larger than themselves, but of many much larger, as the various species of the cyprinus. Many valuable gregarious16 fishes, as the herring, char17, and the finer species of trout18, live on entomostraca; they in their turn become the food of larger and more voracious19 fishes. Even the whale lives on food a portion of which is almost microscopic20. Now, withdraw the water by which all this life subsists21, and putrescence, or fermentation and decay, must be the result upon a mass of life of which the amount may be faintly conjectured23 by the fact that 4,100,000,000 millions of infusoria may be found in a square inch. These insects, when dead, are found in strata24 extending to some acres, and many of the fossils thus discovered belong to species of genera now alive. The principles of life were at least as active in what we call the old world (though in reality the young world), as in the present; the researches of Ehrenberg, repeated by many others, have placed these opinions beyond dispute.
Now, it is by no means improbable—nay, it is almost certain—that many species of these infusoria reside in the vapour of the atmosphere.
The Austrian physicians came to the conclusion that the Asiatic cholera25 was of local or terrestrial origin; the facts mentioned above confirm this view to a certain extent, by disproving the general epidemic26 laws supposed to regulate the progress of cholera and of fever (in which cholera usually terminates), and by showing that the disease sought out, as it were, the inhabitants of certain districts favourable27 for the production of the deleterious influences I am now about to consider. When the epidemical influence was superadded to these, the disease appeared; its independence of changes in temperature may have been owing to other circumstances not yet investigated. Connected with this evolution of vegetable life in spring and summer, and with its effects on man, is what is called the blooming of plants. The presence of stagnant28 waters and of foul29 ditches may be discovered even at a distance by the odour of gases, especially of the sulphuretted hydrogen, they emit. Now, oxygen decomposes30 this gas, and thus it is not so dangerous as represented to live near waters impregnated with it; but should mud or vegetable refuse be left exposed by the drying up of the waters, this gas ascends32 wherever the decayed matter is renewed or turned over. Venice, Amsterdam, and other great cities similarly situated33, are not unhealthy, although their canals abound2 with mud; but so soon as the traffic ceases or becomes trifling34, a mud odour arises, originating in what the French call epuration or floraison d’eau. In every country where there are ponds, canals, or ditches, this vegetable growth takes place so soon as the temperature of the water reaches 60° Fahr. As the quickening of the plants extends from above downwards35, from the leaves and stalk towards the roots, these expand, and the mud becomes loosened; the plants imbibe36 carbon and give out oxygen, and this circulation contributes to the loosening and to the rising of the mud along with the plant. I have witnessed several square yards of mud raised in this way from the bottom of the waters. It subsides37, of course, in due time.
We have seen that the vital force has no influence upon the combination of the simple elements, as such, into chemical compounds. “No element of itself is capable of serving for the nutrition and development of any part of an animal or vegetable organization;” the vital force by its influence merely combines inferior groups of simple atoms into atoms of a higher order.
How stands it with the decomposition39 of animal and vegetable bodies when the influence of the vital and conservative power has been withdrawn40? Let us attend to what an illustrious chemist has said on this subject:—“Universal experience teaches us, that all organized beings after death suffer a change, in consequence of which their bodies gradually vanish from the surface of the earth. The mightiest41 tree, after it is cut down, disappears, with the exception, perhaps, of the bark, when exposed to the action of the air for thirty or forty years. Leaves, young twigs42, the straw which is added to the soil, juicy fruits, &c., disappear much more quickly. In a still much shorter time animal matters lose their cohesion43; they are dissipated in the air, leaving only the mineral elements which they had derived44 from the soil.” “This grand natural process of the dissolution of all compounds formed in living organisms begins immediately after death, when the manifold causes no longer act, under the influence of which they were produced. The compounds formed in the bodies of animals and of plants undergo in the air, with the aid of moisture, a series of changes, the last of which are the conversion45 of their carbon into carbonic acid, of the hydrogen into water, of their nitrogen into ammonia, of their sulphur into sulphuric acid. Thus their elements resume the form in which they can again serve as food for a new generation of plants and animals. Those elements which had been derived from the atmosphere, take the gaseous46 form, and return to the air; those which the earth had yielded return to the soil. Death, followed by the dissolution of the dead generation, is the source of life for a new one. The same atom of carbon which is a constituent10 of a muscular fibre in the heart of a man, assists to propel the blood through his frame, was perhaps a constituent of the heart of one of his ancestors; and any atom of nitrogen in our brain has perhaps been a part of the brain of an Egyptian or of a negro. As the intellect of the men of this generation draws the food required for its development and cultivation47 from the products of the intellectual activity of former times, so may the constituents or elements of the bodies of a former generation pass into and become part of our own frames.” “The proximate cause of the changes which occur in organized bodies after death, is the action of the oxygen of the air on many of their constituents. This action only takes place when water—that is, moisture—is present, and a certain temperature is required for its production.”
Let us not, then, be surprised at the seemingly discordant48 results arrived at, and at the contradictory49 observations which have been made in the best faith possible, and with every regard to truth in science. The circumstances which seemed to be identical are merely analogous50, but in point of fact are essentially51 distinct, as proved by the results. Changes inappreciable by human sense and as yet by philosophical52 instruments, may and no doubt do effect results, to man seemingly contradictory, simply because he comprehends them not. As chemical science makes progress, these differences are being reconciled and understood. Thus, as mere38 temperature exercises a truly remarkable53 influence over the nature of the products of fermentation, may it not be the efficient cause of the difference we observe between the malaria54 of the delta55 of the Mississippi and that floating near the muddy banks of the Scheldt? The juice of carrots, beet-root, or onions, which is rich in sugar, when allowed to ferment22 at ordinary temperature yields the same products as grape-sugar, but at a higher temperature the whole decomposition is changed—there is a much less evolution of gas, and no alcohol is formed.
In the fermented56 liquor there is no longer any sugar, and thus may it be in the great laboratory of nature; the product of the fermentation will assume in one locality a character it does not possess in another. The elements are the same; there is merely a change in temperature.
Are there facts to prove that certain states of transformation57 or putrefaction58 in a substance, are likewise propagated to parts or constituents of the living animal body? Such facts exist. On no other principle but that of assimilation can we explain the phenomena59 of poisoning by the puncture60 of the living hand in dissecting-rooms, the instrument being impregnated with a fermentescible and putrefactive substance, there undergoing a decomposition. Similar, unquestionably, must be the action of animal poisons, such as that of poisonous substances, whether animal or vegetable, of the poisons giving rise to zymotic diseases, &c.; and such may be the origin of the fevers caused by the unknown principle which must still be connected with the decomposition of organic bodies most frequently found in marshy61 countries. But before entering more fully62 on this important matter, I shall first weigh the evidence for and against a theory long fashionable, and which may even now have its supporters—namely, whether fermentation or the revolution of higher or more complex organic vegetable into less complex compounds, be the effect of the vital manifestations64 of vegetable matters, and whether putrefaction or the same change in animal substances be determined65 by the development or the presence of animal beings. They who maintain this theory, assume as a natural consequence of the views that the origin of miasmatic66 or contagious67 diseases, in so far as they may be referred to the presence of putrefactive processes, must be ascribed to the same or to similar causes.
§ 2. The refutation of this view by Liebig seems satisfactory, and has not yet been satisfactorily replied to. The subject is one of much interest; the theory has furnished a foundation for some unquestionably entirely68 fallacious ideas concerning the essence of the vital processes generally, of many pathological conditions, and the causes of certain diseases.
These persons regard fermentation, or the resolution of higher or more complex organic vegetable atoms into less complex compounds, as the effect of the vital manifestations of vegetable matters; and putrefaction, or the same change in animal substances, as being determined by the development or the presence of animal beings. They assume as a natural consequence of this view, that the origin of miasmatic or contagious diseases, in so far as referrible to the presence of putrefactive processes, must be ascribed to the same or similar causes.
The most obvious and important considerations in support of this view of fermentation, are derived from observations made on the alcoholic69 fermentation, and on the yeast70 of beer and of wine. The microscopic researches of physiologists71 and botanists72 have demonstrated that beer or wine yeast consists of single globules strung together, which possess all the properties of living vegetable cells, and resemble very closely certain of the lower family of plants, such as some fungi73 and alg?.
In fermenting74 vegetable juices, we observe, after a few days, small points, which grow from within outwards75; and these have a granular nucleus76, surrounded by a transparent77 envelope. The simultaneous appearance of the yeast-cells and of the products of decomposition of the sugar, is the chief argument in support of the opinion that the fermentation of sugar is an effect caused by the vital process, a result of the development, growth, and propagation of these low vegetable structures. But if the development increase, and propagation of these vegetable cells or tissues be the cause of fermentation, then in every case where we observe this effect we must suppose that the causes or conditions—namely, sugar, from which the cell-walls are produced, and gluten, which yields their contents—are both present.
Now, the most remarkable fact among the phenomena of fermentation, and that which must chiefly be kept in view in the explanation of the process, is this, that the ready-formed cells, after being washed, effect the conversion of pure cane-sugar into grape-sugar, and its resolution into a volume of vapour and alcohol, and that the elements of the sugar are obtained without any loss in these new forms; that consequently, since three pounds of yeast, considered in the dry state, decompose31 two hundred-weight of sugar, a very powerful action takes place, without any notable consumption of matter for the vital purpose of forming cells. If the property of exciting fermentation depended on the development, propagation, and increase of yeast-cells, these cells would be incapable78 of causing fermentation in pure solutions of sugar, in which the other conditions necessary for the manifestation63 of the vital properties, and especially the nitrogenous matters necessary for the production of the contents of the cells, are absent.
Experiment has proved that in this case the yeast-cells cause fermentation, not because they propagate their kind, but in consequence of the decomposition of their nitrogenous contents, which are resolved into ammonia and other products—that is, in consequence of a decomposition which is exactly the opposite of an organic formative process. The yeast, when brought into contact successively with the new portions of sugar, loses by degrees entirely its power of causing fermentation, and at last nothing is left in the liquid but its non-nitrogenous envelopes or cell-walls.28
On the other hand, it may be admitted that fungi and agarics, and all that lives, vegetable and animal, contaminate the air when dead; they absorb oxygen and give out vapours of which some are clearly detrimental79 to human life. The effect of breathing air so contaminated is in some countries immediate—that is, the incubation of the poison requires only a few days, in others many months. Waters in a state of fermentation or putrefaction seem to poison the plants themselves, for duckweed and other swimming plants die, and the swallow and the marten disappear. On the wide ocean and over the absolute desert, the air is always pure, nothing living is decomposing80; but watch the mud coasts, and observe the pestilential effects of sea water when suffered to evaporate, or still more when confined to a locality and suffered to decompose. In the ancient world, as in the modern, nature teemed81 with life, since a cubic inch of the fossil infusoria, contains 41,000 millions of individuals. The microscopic shell fish called entomostraca were equally abundant.
When the evaporation82 of sea water is quickened by an elevation83 of temperature, as in the South of France, noxious84 and unpleasant odours, injurious to vegetable life, are distinctly perceptible. The putrescence and fermentation caused by heat acting85 on the remains of life in sea water left to evaporate, as between Rio and Cape86 Frio, in the Brazils, seem to be the cause of, or at least to give terrible effect to, yellow fever.
Vegetable life is equally abundant, and it may be as injurious when decomposing in its effects on human life. Lichens87 speedily cover the walls of neglected houses, and cause sickness by their decomposition. The spore88 or sporule, which in flowerless plants performs the office of seeds, floats in the atmosphere, and seems to be the cause of the hay-fever so frequent in fertile lowlands. Nor need we quote the recent drainage of the Lake of Haarlem in proof of the sure results of exposing masses of dead animal and vegetable substances to putrefaction—namely, ague, various fevers, and other ailments89 indicative of a poison or malaria affecting the general mass of the blood. Of the minuteness of animal life, it is only necessary to remark that we are acquainted with animals possessing teeth and organs of motion, which are wholly invisible to the naked eye. Other animals exist which, when measured, are found to be many thousand times smaller, and which nevertheless possess the same apparatus90. Their ova must be many hundreds of times still smaller. It is to this invisible world in all probability, and to its decomposition and putrefaction, or at least to influences arising therefrom, that the essential cause of ague, and other febrile diseases of an intermittent91 and remittent character may be referred, aggravated92, no doubt, by insalubrious atmospheric93 constitutions of which we know nothing. These from time to time affect and lower human vitality—a fact admitted by all physicians.
Note on the Question of Quarantine. (See Chapter IV.)
The special-pleaders who formed the Council of the late Board of Health argued that, “as there exists an obvious harmony between our physical and social constitutions, the necessity of intercourse94 between all the members of the human family is one of the final necessities of our race” (“Report on the Quarantine Laws,” Board of Health, p. 64); in other words, that “the diseases supposed to be contagious by our predecessors95, cannot be contagious, because such a supposition is at variance96 with a theory (of their own invention) that there exists a necessity of intercourse between all the members of the human family;” and therefore all quarantine laws ought to be abolished. But are not small-pox, measles97, scarlatina, hooping-cough contagious? And as regards “the necessity of intercourse between all the members of the human family,” were we to consult the Chinese, the Hindoo, the Peruvian, the Mexican, the Caffre, the Negro, the Turk, the Morocene, they would unhesitatingly tell you that such an intercourse is sure to end in their destruction. Under a Trajan or an Alexander, an Antonine, or even an Augustus, the world no doubt was benefited by an universal intercourse between all the members of the human family then known, and such an intercourse was highly beneficial to humanity; but the kind of intercourse established by the Clives and Pizarros is of a very different nature from that of Alexander and Trajan. Civilization is the direct result of artificial wants, the gratification of which can alone be met by a free and unrestricted commerce. By violence an empire may be overthrown98, and by rapacity99 its inhabitants may be deprived, not only of their land and property, but even of their natural rights as men, as in India under the administration of England; but all these crusades have no reference whatever to an ameliorating of the condition of mankind; they simply form episodes in the history of the human race, respecting which historians take extremely different views. The conquests of Mexico and Peru and India form episodes in the respective histories of Spain and Britain by no means flattering to the character of these nations.
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