A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever; as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia. : Exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful; : also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future. / By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and member of the American Philosophical Society.
- Title
- A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever; as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia. : Exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful; : also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future. / By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and member of the American Philosophical Society.
- Author
- Currie, William, 1754-1828.
- Publication
- Philadelphia: :: Printed by Thomas Dobson, no. 41, South Second-Street.,
- M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
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- Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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"A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever; as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia. : Exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful; : also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future. / By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and member of the American Philosophical Society." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N20460.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- TO HIS EXCELLENCY THOMAS MIFFLIN, Governor of Pennsylvania.
- PREFACE.
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A SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE DISEASE.
- DEFINITION.
- DESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMS.
- PROGNOSIS.
- OF THE METHOD OF CURE.
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE CONTAGION.
- MEANS FOR PREVENTING THE INTRODUCTION OF CONTAGION INTO SEA-PORT TOWNS.
- MEANS FOR PREVENTING THE SPREADING OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, WHEN THEY HAPPEN TO BE IN|TRODUCED INTO A CITY.
- MEANS FOR DESTROYING CONTAGION.
- APPENDIX.