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An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, &c. &c. &c. By James Carmichael Smyth, M. D. F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty, published with the approbation of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty.
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date
1796
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A treatise on hydrencephalus, or dropsy of the brain / [James Carmichael Smyth].
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date
1814
Books
A description of the jail distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780; with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / 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
1795
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The works of the late William Stark, M.D. consisting of clinical and anatomical observations, with experiments, dietetical and statical / revised and published from his original Mss. by James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F. R. S. Physician extraordinary to his Majesty.
Stark, William, 1740-1770.
Date
1788
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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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An account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on board the Union hospital ship, to determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. In a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer / [James Carmichael Smyth].
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date
1796
Books
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A description of the jail distemper as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, : at Winchester, in the year 1780. To which is added, an appendix, containing an account of the experiment made at the desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, on board the Union Hospital ship, in 1795, &c. To determine the effect of the nitrous acid in destroying contagion, and the safety with which it may be employed. / By James Carmichael Smyth.
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date
1803
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Observations sur la fièvre des prisons : sur les moyens de la prévenir en arrêtant les progrès de la contagion, à l'aide des fumigations de gaz nitrique, et su l'utilité de ces fumigations pour la destruction des odeurs, et des miasmes contagieux, etc. / traduites librement de l'anglais, du Dr. James Carmichael Smith ... ; suivies d'un extrait des Observations du Dr. James Currie ... sur les bons effets des aspersions d'eau froide dans fièvres ; et terminées par des observations additionnelles sur les fumigations de gaz nitrique [de Smith] en réponse aux objections faites contre ces fumigations, par le Cit. Guyton-Morveau, dans son Traité des moyens de désinfecter l'air ; avec une instruction sur les moyens d'en faire usage, par Louis Odier.
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date
An IX (1801. v. st.)
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A letter to William Wilberforce ... containing remarks on a pamphlet, entitled An account of the discovery of the power of mineral acid vapours to destroy contagion / By John Johnstone. Published in London 1803.
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date
1805
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A description of the jail distemper as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners at Winchester, in the year 1780 : with an account of the means employed for curing that fever, and for destroying the contagion, which gave rise to it / by James Carmichael Smyth.
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Date
1795
Books

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