| Description Of Item | Contains 'Miasmatic Fevers' with extract from a textbook on the subject; 'Continued Fevers'; and loose notes with a table of summer diarrhoea in London, 1843-1852 and the seasonal prevalence of remittent fever. Also includes 'Cases of poisoning by sewer effluvia with clinical remarks' by Mr C Handfield, 1871; and small cuttings on the deodorising qualities of dry earth, Dr Livingstone on bad smells and fever, and poisoned by sewer gas, 1864. |