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A
TREATISE ON FEVER.

BY

SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M.D.

PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,

PATER-NOSTER ROW.

1830.

PRINTED BY G. HAYDEN,

Little College Street, Westminster.

TO

HIS GRACE

THE DUKE OF SOMERSET,

PRESIDENT;

TO

THE VICE-PRESIDENTS,

TO

THE TREASURERS,

AND TO THE

OTHER GENTLEMEN CONSTITUTING THE COMMITTEE,

Of the London Fever Hospital;

IN TESTIMONY

OF HIS ADMIRATION OF THE DILIGENCE

WITH WHICH

THEY LABOUR TO PROMOTE THE PROSPERITY,

AND THE

CARE WITH WHICH THEY WATCH OVER THE INTERESTS OF THIS INSTITUTION;

WHICH,

IN THE MAGNITUDE OF THE BENEFITS IT CONFERS,

NO LESS THAN

IN THE INEXPENSIVENESS OF THE MEANS

BY WHICH,

THROUGH THEIR ECONOMY, IT IS ENABLED TO SECURE THEM,

IS EQUALLED BY FEW ESTABLISHMENTS,

AND

SURPASSED BY NONE;

THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED

BY

THE AUTHOR.