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101. Rapport publié au nom de la Société médicale de la Nouvelle-Orleans sur la fièvre jaune: qui y a régné épidémiquement, durant l'été et l'automne de 1819 ; lu et approuvé dans sa séance du 21 mai 1820, en présence de Mr. Roufignac, maire

Author(s):
Société médicale de la Nouvelle-Orléans.
Publication:
Nouvelle-Orléans : Imprime par James M'Karaher, rue de Chartres no. 46, [1820]
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Climate
New Orleans -- epidemiology

103. 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

Author(s):
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, 1799
Subject(s):
Nitrous Acid -- therapeutic use
Disease Outbreaks
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- prevention & control
Military Medicine

110. 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 Diseases
Disease Outbreaks
Public Health

114. A lecture on epidemic diseases generally, and particularly the spasmodic cholera: delivered in the city of New York, March, 1832, and repeated June, 1832, and in Albany, July 4, 1832, and in New York, June, 1833 : with an appendix, containing several testimonials, and a review of Beaumont's experiments on the gastric juice

Author(s):
Graham, Sylvester, 1794-1851
Publication:
Boston : Published by David Cambell ..., 1838
Subject(s):
Cholera
Disease Outbreaks

118. The cholera beacon, being a treatise on the epidemic cholera as it appeared in Upper Canada, in 1832-4: with a plain and practical description of the first grade, or premonitory symptoms and the various forms of attack, by which the disease may be detected in its curable stage : together with directions for successful treatment : designed for popular instruction

Author(s):
Stimson, Elam, 1792-1869
Publication:
Dundas [Ontario] : Printed by G.H. Hackstaff, 1835
Subject(s):
Cholera
Disease Outbreaks
Ontario -- epidemiology

124. An inaugural dissertation on the scarlatina anginosa, as it prevailed in this city: submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York : William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president; for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the thirtieth day of April, 1793

Author(s):
Taylor, Willett, -1811
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. and J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 27, William-Street, 1793
Subject(s):
Scarlet Fever
Disease Outbreaks

127. A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications

Author(s):
Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for the authors, by William W. Woodward, at Franklin's Head, no. 41, Chesnut-Street, 1794
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever -- nursing
Disease Outbreaks
Terminal Care
Social Problems
African Americans
Philadelphia -- epidemiology
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.

129. Eine kurze Nachricht von dem bösartigen Fieber welches kürzlich in Philadelphia grassiret: nebst einer Erzählung der Maasregeln [sic] die desfals in den verschiedenen Theilen der Vereinigten Staaten genommen wurden ; diesen ist hinzugefüget, Nachrichten von der Pest in London und Marseille und eine Liste der Todten, vom ersten August bis in die Mitte des Decembers 1793

Author(s):
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Publication:
[Chestnut Hill, Pa.] : Gedruckt für den Verfasser, bey Samuel Saur, 1794
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Plague -- history
Mortality
Philadelphia -- epidemiology
London -- epidemiology
France -- epidemiology

132. A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit: which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794

Author(s):
Holliday, John.
Publication:
Boston : Printed by Manning & Loring, for S. Hall, no. 53, and C. Bingham, no. 44, Cornhill, 1796
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Cuba

133. A brief account of the epidemical fever which lately prevailed in the city of New York: with the different proclamations, reports and letters of Gov. Jay, Gov. Mifflin, the Health Committee of New York, &c. upon the subject : to which is added, an accurate list of the names of those who have died of the disease, from July 29, to Nov. 1

Author(s):
Davis, Matthew L. (Matthew Livingston), 1773-1850
Publication:
New York : Printed and sold by Matthew L. Davis, no. 151 Water street, 1795
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
New York City

136. Remarks on the gaseous oxyd of azote or of nitrogene, and on the effects it produces when generated in the stomach, inhaled into the lungs, and applied to the skin: being an attempt to ascertain the true nature of contagion, and to explain thereupon the phenomena of fever

Author(s):
Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. and J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, 1795
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Fever -- etiology
Gases

138. Report of the committee, appointed by the Medical Society, of the State of New-York, to enquire into the symptoms, origin, cause, and prevention of the pestilential disease, that prevailed in New-York during the summer and autumn of the year 1798

Author(s):
Medical Society of the State of New York (1794-1807)
Publication:
[New York] : From the office of the Daily advertiser, no. 71, Pine Street, New-York, 1799
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
New York

139. Short history of the yellow fever, that broke out in the city of Philadelphia, in July 1797: with a list of the dead; of the donations for the relief of the poor, and a variety of other interesting particulars

Author(s):
Folwell, Richard, 1768?-1814
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Richard Folwell, no. 33, Carter's-Alley, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality
Philadelphia -- epidemiology

143. Des moyens de conserver la santé des blancs et des négres, aux Antilles ou climats chauds et humides de l'Amérique: contenant un exposé des causes des maladies propres à ces climats et à la traversée, relativement à la différence des positions, des saisons, et des températures ; les procédés à suivre, soit pour les éviter, soit pour les détruire

Author(s):
Bertin, docteur
Publication:
A Saint-Domingue ; et se trouve a Paris : Chez Méquignon l'aîné, MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Environment
African Continental Ancestry Group
Caribbean Region -- epidemiology

147. An inquiry into the various sources of the usual forms of summer & autumnal disease in the United States, and the means of preventing them: to which are added, Facts, intended to prove the yellow fever not to be contagious

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by J. Conrad & Co., Philadelphia; M. & J. Conrad & Co., Baltimore; Rapin, Conrad, & Co., Washington; Somervell & Conrad, Petersburg; and Bonsal, Conrad, & Co., Norfolk; printed by T. & G. Palmer ..., 1805
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Yellow Fever -- transmission
United States

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