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.

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Main Author:	Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Format:	Microfilm Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, --1799.
Series:	Early American imprints. no. 36328.
Subjects:	Communicable diseases. Disinfection and disinfectants. Fumigation. Nitrous acid. Typhus fever.