Observations on the diseases incident to seamen, whether engaged in actual service, or retired from it in consequence of accidents, infirmities, or old age ... / [Robert Robertson].

London : R. Wilks for the author, 1804-1807.

4 volumes : folded tables ; (8vo)

New edition /

Copy 1 Vol. 1 Note: Bound in navy blue tooled calf with bookplate of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV. General t.p. in vol. i only.

Copy 1 Vol. 3 Note: Half-title and final leaf (notice of forthcoming vol. iv) are wanting and inner forme of sig. T. is blank.

v. 1. Observations On fevers which arise from marsh miasmata or from other causes, in Europe, Africa, the West Indies and Newfoundland.--v. 2. Observations on fever arising from human effluvia, in jails, hospitals and ships, or in other confined situations, made in Europe and America from 1775 to 1804...--3. On febrile infection containing practical remarks on fever...--v. 4. Observations on the diseases incident to seamen retired from actual service in consequence of accidents, infirmities, or old age.