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An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794. / By C. Chisholm ... To which is annexed, A description of the American yellow fever, which prevailed at Charleston in 1748, in a letter from Dr. John Lining.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellow fever.
- Yellow fever--Charleston (S.C.), 1748.
- Grenada--Description and travel.
- Grenada.
- Penn Provenance:
- Martin, H.M. (stamp)
- McFarland, Dr. Joseph (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 308 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed for Thomas Dobson, at the Stone house, no. 41, South Second street, 1799.
- Notes:
- "A page-for-page reprint of the London edition of 1795, to which is added (p. [281]-308) Dr. Lining's 'A description of the American yellow fever, in a letter ... to Dr. Robert Whytt.' This letter was issued separately by the same Philadelphia publisher in 1799"--cf. Austin.
- Local Notes:
- P. 265-272 inserted between p. [280]-[281].
- Cited in:
- Evans 35302
- Sabin 12837
- Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 460
- Contains:
- Lining, John, 1708-1760. Description of the American yellow fever.
- Description of the American yellow fever.
- OCLC:
- 14844909
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