The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion
Subtitle: 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: By James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty.
Contributors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, dedicatee.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 36328.
Publisher: Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street.
Published: 1799
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Disinfection and disinfectants; Fumigation; Nitrous acid; Typhus fever
Notes: Half-title: Of the nitrous fumigation.

Dedicated to the Earl of Spencer.

Signatures: [A]þ́ B-Yþ́ (Y4 blank)

Evans 36328.

Austin, R.B.  Early Amer. medical imprints, 1781.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 36328)