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Proofs of the origin of the yellow fever, in Philadelphia & Kensington, in the year 1797, from domestic exhalation; and from the foul air of the snow Navigation, from Marseilles: and from that of the ship Huldah, from Hamburgh, in two letters, addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania / by the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RG711 .R56 1786 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellow fever--Philadelphia, 1797.
- Yellow fever.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 49 pages ; 24 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Thomas & Samuel F. Bradford, 1798.
- Notes:
- "Controvert[s] the opinion of the College of Physicians." - Pref.
- The opinion of the College was set forth in its Proceedings relative to the prevention of the introduction and spreading of contagious diseases, published earlier in 1798.
- The first letter, in reply to the governor's request of Nov. 6, 1797, is signed by Benjamin Rush and twelve others; the second, dated March 20, 1798, is signed "by order of the Academy ..." by the President and Secretary.
- "Appendix" (documents and affidavits): p. [35]-49.
- Local Notes:
- Bound with copy 2 of Rigby, Edward. An essay on the uterine haemorrhage ... 3rd ed.Philadelphia, 1798.
- Cited in:
- Evans 34352.
- OCLC:
- 84745539
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