| Author | Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
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| Title | 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 ...
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| Published | Philadelphia, Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, 1799.
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| Description | 174 p. : fold. table. ; 24 cm.
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| General Note | Evans 36328.
A reprint of the edition published in London in the same year, except for the omission of a final leaf which was added to the London edition.
Microfilmed for preservation
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| Subjects | Communicable diseases.
Fumigation.
Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
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| Other Authors | Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821. An account of the experiment made on board the Union Hospital Ship.
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821. A description of the jail distemper at Winchester.
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| LC Card Number | 34-18297 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: Pam. S321
mq182475: Pamphlets, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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