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 endemial, in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone. By William Hillary, M. D. With notes, by Benjamin Rush, M. D. professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

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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 endemial, in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone. By William Hillary, M. D. With notes, by Benjamin Rush, M. D. professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
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Signed Author By William Hillary, M. D. With notes, by Benjamin Rush, M. D. professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
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Pagination xiii, 16-260
Date of Publication 1811
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Date of First Publication 1759
Imprint Published by B. & T. Kite, no. 20, N. Third-Street. Jane Aitken, printer.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered, that on the twenty-third day of August, in the thirty-sixth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1811, Benjamin and Thomas Kite, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "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 endemial, in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone. By William Hillary, M. D. With Notes, by Benjamin Rush, M. D. professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania." In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."--And also to the act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
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Notes AAS Notes: Copyright Aug. 23, 1811, by Benjamin and Thomas Kite.
First published London, 1759.
See Ragatz, L.J. Brit. Caribbean history, p. 374.
Dedicated to "the students of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania."
"A treatise on such diseases as are the most frequent in, or are peculiar to the West-India islands, or the torrid zone ... By William Hillary, M.D. With notes by Benjamin Rush, M.D. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, no. 71, North Third Street. 1811," p. [99]-260, has separate title page.
"Index."--p. [261-264].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.),
National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Early American medical imprints,
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American Antiquarian Society copy inscribed: Danl. McDougall.
Library Company of Philadelphia copies inscribed: James Rush 1839.
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Hillary, William, Rush, Benjamin. 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 endemial, in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone. By William Hillary, M. D. With notes, by Benjamin Rush, M. D. professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21348, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21348. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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