Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4

Note 11 — AN INQUIRY INTO THE VARIOUS SOURCES OF THE USUAL FORMS OF SUMMER & AUTUMNAL DISEASE IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE MEANS OF PREVENTING THEM.

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It has been a common practice with many families, in New-York and Philadelphia, for several years past, to lay in a winter store of oysters in their cellars in the fall of the year. May not a part of these oysters, left in these cellars from forgetfulness, or from being unfit for use, become, by putrifying there, the cause of malignant fevers in the succeeding summer and autumn?

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