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

Alternate Title(s):: Of the nitrous fumigation
Author(s):: Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Contributor(s):: Webster, James, 1776?-1851, publisher
Publication:: Philadelphia : Published by James Webster, 1815
Language(s):: English
Format:: Text
Subject(s):: Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- prevention & control
Communicable Disease Control -- methods
Copyright:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain (More information)
Extent:: 174 p., [1] folded leaf of plates
Edition:: A new edition / by James Carmichael Smyth
Illustrations:: Plates
NLM Unique ID:: 2572036R (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2572036R

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