Yellow fever in Galveston, Republic of Texas, 1839 :

Smith, Ashbel.

Yellow fever in Galveston, Republic of Texas, 1839 : an account of the great epidemic / account of the yellow fever which appeared in the city of Galveston, Republic of Texas, in the autumn of 1839, with cases and dissections by Ashbel Smith; together with a biographical sketch by Chauncey D. Leake and stories of the men who conquered yellow fever. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 1951. - 135 p. (ill. port.)

Includes reproduction of title page of original ed., Galveston, 1839 - 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 by Ashbel Smith. Includes biographical sketches of "The men who conquered yellow fever", p.85-129, reprinted from a series of articles edited by Josiah C. Trent and published in 1946 by the North Carolina Medical Journal.


Smith, Ashbel, 1805-1886.


Yellow fever--history--biography.
Disease outbreaks--history.
History, 19th century.


United States.

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