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Typhus fever

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  • A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.
  • Soldiers suffering from typhus, lying in the streets. Lithograph by E. Leroux after A. Raffet.
  • A contagiously ill man asks for the bed-pan; the nurse tells him that it will cost ten sous for the risk. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
  • A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.
  • The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.
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Catalogue

  • view Des fièvres typhoides et du typhus, histoire et description de ces affections : analogies et différences qui existent entre elles ... / par J.J.H. Montault.
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    Des fièvres typhoides et du typhus, histoire et description de ces affections : analogies et différences qui existent entre elles ... / par J.J.H. Montault.

    Montault, J. J. H. | Date: 1838
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    Estudios sôbre o tifo exantemático = Studies on typhus fever / H. da Rocha Lima ; coligidos e reproduzidos pelo Dr. Edgard de Cerqueira Falcão ; comentados pelo Prof. Dr. Otto G. Bier.

    Rocha-Lima, H. da (Henrique), 1879-1956 | Date: 1966
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    Observations on jail, hospital, or ship fever, from the 4th April, 1776, until the 30th April, 1789, made in various parts of Europe and America, and on the intermediate seas. By Robert Robertson, M.D. Physician to the Royal Hospital, Greenwich.

    Robertson, Robert, 1742-1829. | Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
  • view A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D.
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    A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D.

    Jackson, Robert, 1750-1827 | Date: 1819
  • view Tentamen medicum inaugurale, quaedam complectens, de typho ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Thomas Renwick, Anglus.
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    Tentamen medicum inaugurale, quaedam complectens, de typho ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Thomas Renwick, Anglus.

    Renwick, Thomas | Date: 1787
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