Prisons & Jail Fever.- Smyth (James Carmichael) A Description of the Jail Distemper...amongst the Spanish Prisoners, at Winchester, in the year 1780, first edition, spotting to title, modern calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with red roan label, 1795; The Effect of the Nitrous Vapour in Preventing and Destroying Contagion, half-title, folding engraved plan of hsopital ship, folding table, some spotting, ex-library copy with faint stamps to title, plate and table, modern cloth, 1799, [Wellcome V p.140], J.Johnson; and a life of John Howard in French, 8vo (2)

⁂ James Carmichael Smyth (1742-1821), a scholarly London physician, experimented with nitrous acid gas in the prevention of jail fever (typhus) with some success, for which he was awarded £5000 by the government.