| Description Of Item | Contains 'Amelioration and Prevention of Epidemics'; 'Course and Decline of Epidemics'; 'Etiology and Nosology of Epidemic Fevers' with extracts from a textbook on ochlotic fevers and the treatment of typhus, eruptive and enteric; 'Epidemics and Endemics'; and 'Diurnal Physiological and Meteorological Periods'. Also includes loose notes on the classification of fevers and poison epidemic; diagram exhibiting the progressive increase in London of diseases of the defecatory organs with increase of temperature 1842-1848; advertisements for Gerrard's disinfecting vaporiser and Condy's patent fluid; pamphlet 'Dr Laycock's Class - A Nosology of Fevers' with annotations, 1855; 'Contagion - the passage of germinal or living matter from one organism to another' by Dr Beale, 1865; 'The recent introduction of fever into Liverpool by the crew of the Egyptian vessel the Scheah Gehaed' by Dr Duncan, 1861; 'By-gone days of pestilence at York', 1844; 'The Logical Non-Contagiousness of Cholera' from the Indian Medical Gazette, 1874; letter from W M Campbell on the immunity accorded a district of Glasgow by the St Rollox Chemical Works; and small cuttings on waves of heat waves of mortality, origin of virulent diseases, the neutralisation of blood ferments, mortality amongst animals at Smithfield Show, influence of weather on health, on cheap disinfectant, the plague, the hour of death, temperature and disease, 1864-1875. |