An essay upon pestilential diseases, such as the putrid, malignant, and yellow fevers, and the plague; with an account of an infectious fever, or plague, which broke out and raged with great mortality on board His Majesty's Ship Surprise, in the year 1776, on the Banks of Newfoundland; ... and upon the most effectual means of destroying contagion or infection, by quick-lime, and the fumes of the sulphuric acid.

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An essay upon pestilential diseases, such as the putrid, malignant, and yellow fevers, and the plague; with an account of an infectious fever, or plague, which broke out and raged with great mortality on board His Majesty's Ship Surprise, in the year 1776, on the Banks of Newfoundland; ... and upon the most effectual means of destroying contagion or infection, by quick-lime, and the fumes of the sulphuric acid. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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