The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion : ascertained, from a variety of trials, made chiefly by surgeons of His Majesty's Navy, in prisons, hospitals, and on board of ships: with an introduction respecting the nature of the contagion, which gives rise to the jail or hospital fever; and the various methods formerly employed to prevent or destroy this / by James Carmichael Smyth.

  • Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
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1799
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Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1799.

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xiv pages, [15]-174 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates ; 24 cm (8vo)

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Collation includes final blank leaf
Half title: Of the nitrous fumigation
Pp. [95]-164: letters from various surgeons on experiments with nitrous vapour
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Webb Dordick Note: Binding: Original boards, paper label

References note

Austin 1781
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1781
ESTC W31813
Evans, 36328

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