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 (Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, 1799)
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1781
Dedicated to the Earl of Spencer
English Short Title Catalog, W31813
Evans, 36328
Half-title: Of the nitrous fumigation