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Excerpt from: Dr. Backus To Mason Cogswell, August 29, 1794 That we have a malignant putrid disease existing among us is a fact, that it has in the greatest number of instances where it has happened, proved fatal is also a fact....We have begun to exercise the lancet and have I think in several instances seen good... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Dr. Backus To Mason Cogswell, August 29, 1794 | |
| From: | Letters To Mason Cogswell | |
| Creator: | Jno. Backus (author) | |
| Date: | August 29, 1794 | |
| Format: | Correspondence | |
| Publication: | Father and Daughter: A Collection of Cogswell Family Letters and Diaries (1772-1830) | |
| Publisher: | American School for the Deaf | |
| Source: | Yale Medical Library | |
| Control no.: | Biog. C659R | |
| Keywords: | Connecticut; Correspondence; Deaf; Disease; Doctors; Education; Educational Institutions; Institutions; Mason Cogswell; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Public Health; Schools | |
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