Skip to contentThe effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion; : ascertained, from a variety of trials, made chiefly by surgeons of His Majesty's navy, in prisons, hospitals, and on board of ships: with an introduction respecting the nature of the contagion, which gives rise to the jail or hospital fever, and the various methods formerly employed to prevent or destroy this | Collections | The Huntington