Epidemic cholera: its history, causes, pathology, and treatment

by C. B. Coventry

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First edition

Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1849. First edition, 12mo, pp. 119, 1 ; original brown cloth, gilt title on upper cover, extremities rubbed, light foxing throughout, good and sound. Coventry drew from his experience of cholera outbreaks in New York and Canada to prescribe treatment and instruct on diagnosis. As he was working prior to germ theory, he attributes the cause to unclean atmosphere and suggests bloodletting, a variety of concoctions and the

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