An Essay on Contagious Diseases

Name: An Essay on Contagious Diseases
Author: Clifton Wintringham

by Clifton Wintringham

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An Essay on Contagious Diseases more particularly on the small-pox, measles, putrid, malignant, and pestilential fevers

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Ernest Schaal and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2015-06-29

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Public domain in the USA.

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Communicable diseases -- Early works to 1800 Smallpox -- Early works to 1800 Fever -- Early works to 1800

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Clifton Wintringham

1689–1748

An early 18th-century English physician and medical writer, he is remembered for bringing careful observation to subjects like gout, fevers, and smallpox. Writing from York, he helped shape practical medical discussion in an era when medicine was still finding its modern footing.

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