An essay on contagions & infections : and their laws of generation & communication, by which they are respectively governed, and thence properly to be distinguished : designed, as the continuation of the remarks, in an "Essay, on the prevailing fever of 1817" : together with a syllabus, and classification, with practical remarks on the origin of contagions and infections : to which, are added, hints and directions, to the best means for preventing the extension of contagious & infectious diseases / by J.L.E.W. Shecut.

  • Shecut, John L. E. W. (John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge), 1770-1836.
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An essay on contagions & infections : and their laws of generation & communication, by which they are respectively governed, and thence properly to be distinguished : designed, as the continuation of the remarks, in an "Essay, on the prevailing fever of 1817" : together with a syllabus, and classification, with practical remarks on the origin of contagions and infections : to which, are added, hints and directions, to the best means for preventing the extension of contagious & infectious diseases / by J.L.E.W. Shecut. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Essay on contagions and infections

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Charleston : Printed by W.P. Young ..., 1818.

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10 unnumbered pages, 60 pages ; 20 cm

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The dedicatory epistles are dated Dec. 1817
NLM copy, author's presentation copy to someone at Harvard University; text of presentation inscription on t.p. mostly lost due to excessive trimming.
Film 633 reel 87 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 87, no. 1739).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1739
Shaw & Shoemaker 45699

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

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