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SMITH, Ashbel (1805 – 1886)

SMITH, Ashbel (1805 – 1886)

1805 – 1886

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Public domain

1839 CE

#13896

An account of the yellow fever which appeared in the city of Galveston, Republic of Texas, in the autumn of 1839, with cases and dissections,

In 1839 Smith treated the victims of a yellow fever epidemic in Galveston while writing reports about the treatment of the disease in the Galveston News. As a result of this experience, he wrote the first treatise on …