Observations on the disease called the plague, on the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention
Subtitle: with some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases
By: by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale ; to which is added, a letter concerning the seasoning, or yellow fever of the West-Indies by George Pinckard
Contributors: Mitchill, Samuel L. 1764-1831; Neale, Adam, d. 1832; Pinckard, George, 1768-1835.
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 8435-8438
Publisher: T. & J. Swords
Published: 1806
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Plague -- Prevention; Dysentery; Yellow fever -- Spain -- Cádiz
Notes: "Introduction by the American publishers" (p. [vii]-xliii) includes extracts from S.L. Mitchill's letter of Sept. 10, 1806, to the Board of Health in New York, and his letter (undated) to Dr. Rodgers, the health officer in the port of New York

The French original (Observations sur la maladie appelée la peste [etc.]) appeared in Paris in 1801. The London edition of Neale's translation was published in 1804. The appendix (p. 211-234) added in the American edition, is taken from Pinckard's Notes on the West-Indies, London, 1806

"Report made to the Society of the School of Medicine at Paris, upon [Assalini's] Observations upon the disease called the plague, &c.  Extracted from the registers of the Society ... the sitting of ... (6th March, 1801)": p. 176-195

"Report [on the state of the hospitals of the army of the East] made to the consuls of the French Republic, by the Minister of War [Alex. Berthier] ... (4th April, 1801)": p. 196-198

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Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1991. 4 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 8435-8438)