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Author: Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821.
Title: The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion; 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 James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty.
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Print source: The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion; 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 James Carmichael Smyth, M.D. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to His Majesty.
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821., Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, dedicatee.

Philadelphia:: Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street., --1799.
Subject terms:
Communicable diseases.
Disinfection and disinfectants.
Fumigation.
Nitrous acid.
Typhus fever.
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EXTRACTS FROM THE LETTERS OR JOURNALS OF SURGEONS OF THE NAVY, (On the Subject of the Nitrous Fumigation;) TRANSMITTED TO DR. CARMICHAEL SMYTH, BY ORDER OF THE BOARD FOR SICK AND WOUNDED SAILORS.