An Account of the Effects of Swinging; Employed as a Remedy in the Pulmonary Consumption and Hectic Fever

by James Carmichael Smyth

$750 · Offered by Swan's Fine Books

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1788. Leather bound. Octavo size, 60 pp. Very good +. Item #25020105 Tuberculosis, also known as consumption, is a disease caused by bacteria that usually attacks the lungs, and at the turn of the 20th century, the leading cause of death in the United States n.b., from the web site of the American Lung Association . It was this way for centuries; as far back as 460 BCE, when

• Printing: later
• Binding: Leather

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