A treatise on a malignant epidemic
Subtitle: commonly called spotted fever : interspersed with remarks on the nature of fever in general, &c., and anappendix, in which is republished a number of essays written by different authors on this epidemic, with the addition of original notes : containing also a few original and selected cases, with clinical remarks.
By: By Elisha North.
Publisher: Printed and sold by T. & J. Swords, printers to the Faculty of physic of Columbia college, no. 160 Pearl-street.
Published: 1811
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Typhus fever.
Description: First book on cerebrospinal meningitis; recommends use of the clinical thermometer, not in general use until the time of Wunderlich. The author distinguishes his spotted fever from two types of typhus.