fever-nest

Updated: May 27, 2025

Selberg was at Batavia during the wet season, when torrents of rain, of whose abundance and volume Europeans can form no idea, alternate with a sun-heat that cracks the earth and pumps up pestilence from the low marshy ground upon which this fever-nest is built. He had abundant opportunity to investigate the causes and symptoms of the fevers and other prevalent maladies.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847