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Archives Italiennes de Biologie, tome vii., fasc. 1, Rome, February 1886, contains:—Studies on the drainage of the Roman Campagna, part 5, by C. Tommasi-Crudeli, concludes with the expression of his opinion, based on very numerous facts—(1) that the proposed artificial draining of the Ostian and Maccaresan marshes, and their reclamation, will augment in a great degree the malaria exhalations from these basins; and (2) that the hygrometric condition in which the subsoil of the reclaimed district would exist would render it very probable that such malaria exhalations would be persistent. He believes that malaria is produced on the earth, and not on the water, and when an area is covered with a sheet of water, and while it is covered, it is free from malaria.—On the minute anatomy of the central nervous organs, by Prof. C. Golgi.—On periodic and superfluous respirations, by Prof. A. Mosso (eight plates). The respiratory movements in health are not always uniform in sleep and during moments of deep repose; the respiratory effort decreases and augments. This peculiar form the author calls “periodic respiration,” and any excess of respiration beyond the actual needs of the tissues and blood he calls “superfluous respiration.” Many phenomena of interest are described in this memoir—Contribution to a knowledge of the physiological effects of cocaine, by Dr. C. Sighicelli.—On the physiological action of thalline, by Dr. G. Pisenti.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 33, 619–620 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033619b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/033619b0