A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city.

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A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit : which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794 / as practised by Mr. John Holliday, an English surgeon, resident in that city. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Half-title: Origin, and method of treating, the putrid bilious yellow fever

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Boston : Printed by Manning & Loring, for S. Hall, no. 53, and C. Bingham, no. 44, Cornhill, 1796.

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vi, 1 unnumbered page, 8-34 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

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Evans 30574
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 925
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 219
ESTC (RLIN) W29405

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Half-title: Origin, and method of treating, the putrid bilious yellow fever
"Desultory extracts and observations, shewing that the method of treatment, related in the foregoing account, is agreeable to the rules laid down by Hippocrates and Galen, Sydenham and Boerhaave, and confirmed by the practice of Hillary and Lettsom, in acute diseases. By Thomas Bulfinch, M.D. ..."--pp. 17-34, with separate, dated title page
An earlier edition was published in Falmouth [Jamaica?] and reprinted at London in 1795. Cf. Austin
Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ [C]⁴ D⁴ E² (E2 blank)
NLM Copy 2 imperfect: lacking the half-title leaf.
Film 633 reel 51 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 51, no. 925).

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