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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Houston, TX

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1839

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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,

SMITH, Ashbel (1805 – 1886)
SMITH, Ashbel (1805 – 1886)

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 …