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A short account of the malignant fever lately prevalent in Philadelphia : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject, in different parts of the United States : to which are added accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles, and a list of the dead from August 1 to the middle of December 1793 / by Mathew Carey.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RC211.P5 C26 1794
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
Contributor:
Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Yellow fever.
Plague.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Plague--England--London, 1665.
Plague--France--Marseille, 1720.
France.
England.
Penn Provenance:
Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)
Physical Description:
160 pages ; 24 cm (8vo)
Edition:
Fourth edition, improved.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by the author, January 16, 1794.
Notes:
"Contents": p. 160.
Local Notes:
Letter 't' at the beginning of the title, in 'A short' fails to print.
Cited in:
Evans 26735
OCLC:
2454676

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