Yellow Fever - Early works to 1800

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Medical inquiries and observations containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794. Together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania. Volume IV.
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813.Date: 1796
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[An] essay on the bilious, or yellow fever of Jamaica. By John Williams
Williams, John, d. 1750.Date: 1750
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Medico-chymical dissertations on the causes of the epidemic called yellow fever; and on the best antimonial preparations for the use of medicine . By a physician, practitioner in Philadelphia.
Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, 1762-1833.Date: 1796
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A few facts and observations on the yellow fever of the West Indies , By which it is shewn, that there have existed two species of fever in the West-India Islands for several years past, indiscriminately called yellow fever, but which have proceeded from very different causes. With the success attending the method of cure. By James Anderson, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, honorary member of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, and late surgeon to His Majesty's 60th regiment of foot.
Anderson, James, d. 1826.Date: 1798
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A sermon, preached September 20th, 1793 a day set apart, in the city of New-York, for public fasting, humiliation and prayer, on account of a malignant and mortal fever prevailing in the city of Philadelphia. By John Mitchel Mason, Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in the city of New-York. [Five lines of Scripture texts].
Mason, John M. (John Mitchell), 1770-1829.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]