Epidemics - Early works to 1800

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An inquiry into the cause of the pestilence . In three parts. With an appendix, Containing some Facts taken from History, the works of Physicians, &c. relating to the Subject.
Bruce, Alexander M.D.Date: 1759
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Dialogus in Theatro Sheldoniano habitus inter Ricardum Hely Hutchinson et Davidem Henricum Urquhart , e Collegio Magdalenensi superioris ordinis commensales. Jul. viii. MDCCLXXIII. Socius collegii commorans, et parochialis.
Wheeler, Benjamin 1732 or 3-1783.Date: 1773
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A treatise on the putrid constitution of 1777 and the preceding years , and the Pestilential One of 1778: Of the Obstinate Disorders that appeared in the Former, and the Malignant and Pestilential fevers that arose in the latter, Their Causes, and the best Method of preventing them; the Due Administration of Medicine, especially in the former, And the general Method of their cure. Also of The causes of disease in general; With some peculiar Remarks on some common Errors and dangerous Mistakes in the Use of the bark and other Medicines. By John Barker.
Barker, John b. 1730.Date: 1779
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A paper on the prevention and treatment of the disorders of seamen and soldiers in Bengal . Presented to the honourable court of East-India directors, in the year 1791. By John Peter Wade, M.D.
Wade, John Peter d. 1802.Date: 1793
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Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year . Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy. By Andrew Wilson, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh.
Wilson, Andrew M.D., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.Date: 1765