The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion [microform] ; 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

Author:: Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Published:: Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, --1799.
Physical Description:: xiv, 3 unnumbered pages, 18-174 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 23 cm (8vo)
Additional Creators:: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834

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Dedicated to the Earl of Spencer.
Half-title: Of the nitrous fumigation.
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Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 36328).

Reviewed/Cited In:

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1781
Evans, C. American bibliography, 36328

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