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Observations on the changes of the air, and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbadoes. To which is added, A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever, and such other diseases as are indigenous or in the Torrid Zone. With notes, by Benjamin Rush.

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Title	Observations on the changes of the air, and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbadoes. To which is added, A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever, and such other diseases as are indigenous or in the Torrid Zone. With notes, by Benjamin Rush.
Creator	Hillary, William, -1763
Subject	Yellow fever -- Epidemiology -- Barbadoes
Description	264p.
Publisher	B. & T. Kite Jane Aitken
Date	1811
Language	en
Coverage-Spatial	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Call Number	WZ 270 H55o
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Title	Observations on the changes of the air, and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbadoes. To which is added, A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever, and such other diseases as are indigenous or in the Torrid Zone. With notes, by Benjamin Rush.
Creator	Hillary, William, -1763
Subject	Yellow fever -- Epidemiology -- Barbadoes
Description	264p.
Publisher	B. & T. Kite Jane Aitken
Date	1811
Language	en
Coverage-Spatial	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Object File Name	aa000116_0001
Call Number	WZ 270 H55o
Full text	o ^ r 'f '•^¦ DEDICATION. TO THE STUDENTS OF MEDICINE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Permit me. Gentlemen, to conduct you to another of those fountains of practical knowledge in medicine, which Imve been opened by the history of epidemic diseases. The physician, to whose patience and labour we are in¬ debted for performing that useful task by means of the following work,was a pupil of the celebrated Dr. Boerhaave, from whom he learned the necessary connection of theory with experience in the practice of physic. It is true, some ofthe theories he adopted, from his illustrious master, have been discovered to be erroneous, but the facts he has re¬ corded in his history of the weather, and of its effects upon the symptoms, and cure of diseases, willbe true, in like eir-. cumstances, in all ages and countries, nor will they be af¬ fected in their importance or utility by any ofthe successive revolutions which may take place in the principles of our science. There is the same difference between the knowledge which is acquired by studying the histories of epidemics, and that which is obtained by reading abstract treatises upon diseases, in their respective influence upon the practice of a

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Observations on the changes of the air, and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbadoes. To which is added, A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever, and such other diseases as are indigenous or in the Torrid Zone. With notes, by Benjamin Rush.

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