by Benjamin Romaine (Author) Title: Observations, reasons and facts, disproving importation: and also, all specific personal contagion in yellow fever, from any local origin, except that which arises from the common changes of the atmo.phere. Author: Benjamin Romaine Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP01130800 CollectionID: CTRG93-B1574 PublicationDate: 18230101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Issued in blue printed wrappers with cover title within ornamental border, and side-stitched. Consists of eight essays addressed to the New York City Board of Health, signed by "An Old Citizen," dated from Aug. 13-Oct. 29, 1822. An earlier letter had appeared in the "Evening Post" seeking to address the City Board of Health. "Extract from a short dissertation on the sourse sic] of epidemic and pestilential diseases, by Dr. Charles Maclean, of Calcutta" p. 39]-40. Includes correspondence. Collation: 40 p.; 22 cm Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Publication Date: February 21, 2012