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... treatment , of which 11,420 were of idiopathic fever , using the term in contradistinction to fever of the sympathetic kind , such as arises from the phlag- masia and exanthemata ; and that in the Seaman's Hospital during the same ...
... treatment , of which 11,420 were of idiopathic fever , using the term in contradistinction to fever of the sympathetic kind , such as arises from the phlag- masia and exanthemata ; and that in the Seaman's Hospital during the same ...
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... treated where the disease originated . 7thly . That Yellow Fever , it would appear from its past his- tory , has ... treatment likely to be most successful in each epidemic . 8thly . That though it has invaded bodies of men occupying ...
... treated where the disease originated . 7thly . That Yellow Fever , it would appear from its past his- tory , has ... treatment likely to be most successful in each epidemic . 8thly . That though it has invaded bodies of men occupying ...
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... treatment behind them . In some measure to prevent the inconvenience of a similar blank in the medical history of the colony , the Author undertook to write the present memoir . The materials of it are derived from his clinical notes of ...
... treatment behind them . In some measure to prevent the inconvenience of a similar blank in the medical history of the colony , the Author undertook to write the present memoir . The materials of it are derived from his clinical notes of ...
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... treatment in the Seaman's Hospital . * After he recovered from his attack of the prevailing epidemic , his talents were discovered , and , for a considerable period , he continued to be employed by me as draughtsman for the hospital ...
... treatment in the Seaman's Hospital . * After he recovered from his attack of the prevailing epidemic , his talents were discovered , and , for a considerable period , he continued to be employed by me as draughtsman for the hospital ...
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... treat of the late pestilence in its general and epidemic character : in the second division , of its peculiarities as an individual disease , and its treatment : in the third division , the meteorological and other phenomena attending ...
... treat of the late pestilence in its general and epidemic character : in the second division , of its peculiarities as an individual disease , and its treatment : in the third division , the meteorological and other phenomena attending ...
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