A treatise on the autumnal endemial epidemick of tropical climates, vulgarly called the yellow fever : containing its origin, history, nature and cure ; together with a few reflections on the proximate cause of diseases / by John B. Davidge, A.M. M.D.

  • Davidge, John B. (John Beale), 1768-1829.
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A treatise on the autumnal endemial epidemick of tropical climates, vulgarly called the yellow fever : containing its origin, history, nature and cure ; together with a few reflections on the proximate cause of diseases / by John B. Davidge, A.M. M.D. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Baltimore : Printed by W. Pechin ..., 1798.

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65 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 19 cm (8vo)

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"Appendix (p. [59]-65) added after the treatise was at the press, contains the letter addressed to Governor Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania by the physicians of Philadelphia in reply to his request of Nov. 6, 1797 for information on yellow fever. Signed by Benjamin Rush and twelve others, it was also published in 1798 by the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia under title: Proofs of the origin of the yellow fever, in Philadelphia & Kensington, in the year 1797"--Austin
Signatures: [A]-[B]⁴ C-H⁴ I² (G1 missigned F; I2 blank). Cf. ESTC
NLM copy: the final gathering is not signed.
Film 633 reel 36 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 36, no. 626).

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Evans 33603
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 109
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 626
ESTC (RLIN) W31651

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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