The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion [electronic resource] : 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.

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Online Access
Main Author:	Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Other Authors:	Bartram, Archibald, 1774?-1808 (Printer), Budd, Henry, -1816 (Printer)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, --1799.
Subjects:	Communicable diseases. Disinfection and disinfectants. Fumigation. Nitrous acid. Typhus fever.