An inquiry into the propagation of contagious poisons, by the atmosphere

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S. SCOTT ALISON, M. D.
TRANENT.
“I have long thought that there is no subject on which a Physician could employ his time and ability more advantageously for the benefit of his fellow-creatures, than in the investigation of febrile Contagion, in order to ascertain the laws by which it is communicated, and by what means it may be prevented.”      Haygarth
EDINBURGH:
MACLACHLAN, STEWART & CO.;
LONDON, WHITTAKER & CO.
1839.
PRINTED BY NEILL AND CO., OLD FISHMARKET, EDINBURGH.
The Author trusts that the importance and the accuracy of the facts which have been detailed in the following Work may, in some measure, counterbalance the many defects which will doubtless present themselves to the reader.
The progress of the Work has been interrupted, on innumerable occasions, by the unceasing labours incident to the life of a country medical practitioner; and though many of the facts and arguments which have been used, have long obtained the author’s attentive consideration, their reduction to the present form has only now been accomplished during the short intervals which he has seized, after the fatigues of the day had been concluded.