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1. An inaugural dissertation, shewing in what manner pestilential vapours acquire their acid quality, and how this is neutralized and destroyed by alkalies: 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 2d day of May, 1798

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Author(s):
Lent, Adolph C.
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. & J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 99 Pearl-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Alkalies
Disease Outbreaks

3. 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

nlm:nlmuid-2572035R-bk
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

4. Medical inquiries and observations: containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794 ; together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever ; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases

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Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no 41, South Second-Street, 1796
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Fever
Bloodletting
Philadelphia -- epidemiology

5. A view of ehe [sic] science of life: on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. ; with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work ; and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta

nlm:nlmuid-2578023R-bk
Author(s):
Yates, William, active 1797
Publication:
Whitehall [Pa.] : Printed by William Young, bookseller no. 52, Second-Street, corner of Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia, 1797
Subject(s):
Medicine
Disease
Disease Outbreaks
Brown, John, 1735-1788.

9. Memoirs of the yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia, and other parts of the United States of America, in the summer and autumn of the present year, 1798: including, tables of the weather, and the daily returns of the sick and dead ; the proceedings of the Board of Health, and Guardians of the Poor ; with the various events of each day, noted at the time of their occurrence ; and the publications which appeared in the different newspapers, during the continuance of the disease, dissections at Boston, &c. &c. ; to which is added, a collections of facts respecting the origin of the fever

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Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by John Bioren for Thomas Dobson ..., 1798
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality
History, 18th Century
United States -- epidemiology

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