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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

Collection:
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Alternate Title(s):
Of the nitrous fumigation
Author(s):
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Contributor(s):
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, dedicatee
Budd, Henry, -1816., printer
Bartram, Archibald, 1774?-1808, printer
Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, bookseller
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, 1799
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Nitrous Acid -- therapeutic use
Disease Outbreaks
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- prevention & control
Military Medicine
Genre(s):
Case Reports
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain (More information)
Extent:
xiv, [3], 18-174, [2] p., [1] folded leaf
Illustrations:
Charts and Plates
NLM Unique ID:
2572035R (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2572035R