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, M.D. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty.
- Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
- Date:
- --1799
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Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, --1799.
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xiv,[3],18-174,[2]p., [1]folded leaf ; 80.
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ESTC W31813
Evans, 36328
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1781
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