On the nature and causes of fever : especially that termed yellow fever that is not a disease "sui generis", neither is it a malady of "modern origin" read at the meeting of the Epidemiological Society, in May last / by Edward Bascome.

  • Bascome, Edward
Date:
1852
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Credit: On the nature and causes of fever : especially that termed yellow fever that is not a disease "sui generis", neither is it a malady of "modern origin" read at the meeting of the Epidemiological Society, in May last / by Edward Bascome. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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