Observations on the disease called the plague, on the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
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New-York :
T. & J. Swords,
1806.
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| Item Description: | "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 (pages 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)": pages 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)": pages 196-198. Microform : 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xlvii, 234 pages ; 19 cm. |