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to the rule; and, with a due exercise of lateral vision, other 

 special conditions of the lives of German sailors might be found 

 competent to counteract the apparently healthy conditions, and 

 to produce such a de-oxygenized state of the blood as might be 

 expected in cases where the supply of atmospheric oxygen was 

 actually deficient. Even on the simplest hygienic principles, 

 the development of morbid growths in the presence of abundant 

 fresh air and sunlight must be regarded as exceptional in either 

 the vegetable or animal kingdom. Should the lateral observations 

 result in the discovery of competent causes, with or without 

 efficient oxygenization, the working hypothesis would have lived a 

 useful life and would have an honourable death. — F. J. F. 



