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.
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1799
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Half-title: Of the nitrous fumigation

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London : printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1799.

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xvi, 234 p., plate, table ; 80.

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ESTC N9086

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