1. A dissertation on the causes, preventives, and remedies of plague, yellow fever, cholera, dysentery, and other pestilential, epidemic, or contagious diseases: respectfully proposed to the consideration of the governments, magistrates, philanthropists, beneficent societies, boards of health, medical societies, physicians, and inhabitants of all nations and countries on the globe : containing outlines of a new, uniform, physiological system of medical science and practice. Predicated on the known laws of nature and chemical affinity Author(s): Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834 Publication: Philadelphia : Sold by J. Grigg ... and booksellers generally, throughout the United States, printed by S. Probasco, 1832 Subject(s): Communicable DiseasesDisease OutbreaksPublic Health