History and description of an epidemic fever, commonly called spotted fever, which prevailed at Gardiner, Maine, in the spring of 1814 / by E. Hale, jr.

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1818
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Credit: History and description of an epidemic fever, commonly called spotted fever, which prevailed at Gardiner, Maine, in the spring of 1814 / by E. Hale, jr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TO BENJAMIN VAUGHAN Esq.M.D. L.L.D. DEAR SIR, The kindness and friendship with which you have honoured me, as well as the strong interest you feel in the promotion of scienee ; and especially that of the profession to which 1 belong, induce me to inscribe to you this little volume. You have seen much of the disease, which I have here attempted to de- scribe, and will feel how inadequate any des- cription is, to give a full representation of its various and evanescent features. You have seen too, what anxious watching, and diligent investigation, it incessantly required from the physician ; and how little time it left him, to mature his observations upon its character. You will, therefore, I doubt not, be disposed to receive with candour and indulgence this attempt to transmit to others, an account of the principal phenomena which it exhibited. DEAR SIR, Your sincere friend and very obedient servant, E. HALE, jr. Boston, October 1, 1818.