A dissertation on the sources of malignant bilious, or yellow fever, and means of preventing it : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the sixth day of June, 1799, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by William G. Chalwill, of Tortola, member of the Philadelphia Medical and Chemical Societies.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Chalwill, William G.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yellow fever--Early works to 1800.

Yellow fever.

Genre:

Academic dissertations -- Pennsylvania -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837 (inscription) (RBC copy 1)

Chalwill, William G. (autograph) (RBC copy 1)

Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 2)

Harlan, Max (former owner) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Way & Groff, no. 48, North Third-Street, 1799.

Notes:

Dedicated to Philip S. Physick.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ (D4 verso blank).

With a half-title.

Thesis (M.D.)-- University of Pennsylvania, 1799.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Smith copy is no. 1 in a vol. of 10 medical dissertations bound together.

Cited in:

Evans 35291

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 436

OCLC:

14852176