Title: 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.
First published: 1799
Subjects: Disinfection and disinfectants, Early works to 1800, Nitrous acid., Fever, Nitrous acid, Typhus fever, Fumigation, Communicable diseases, Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne, Disinfectants, Therapeutic use, Case Reports, Disease Outbreaks, Military Medicine, Prevention & control, Prevention, Drug therapy