Bring out your dead : the great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / by J.H. Powell ; reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, J. H. (John Harvey), 1914-1971, author.

Series:

Studies in health, illness, and caregiving

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Yellow fever.

Yellow Fever--history.

Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Medical Subjects:

Yellow Fever--history.

Philadelphia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Introduction to the 1993 Edition

Preface to the 1949 Edition

Acknowledgments

"A Merry, Sinful Summer" (starting p. 1)

Infection in Water Street (starting p. 8)

Fever, Domestic and Foreign (starting p. 29)

Prevention, Personal and Civic (starting p. 45)

Crisis (starting p. 64)

Panic (starting p. 90)

"This Excellent Physician" (starting p. 114)

Bush Hill (starting p. 140)

The Committee (starting p. 173)

"Sangrado" (starting p. 195)

The Fugitives (starting p. 216)

Height of the Plague (starting p. 233)

Frost (starting p. 260)

Afterwards (starting p. 280)

Notes (starting p. 287)

Index (starting p. 295)

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Arno Press, 1949.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Powell, J.H. (John Harvey), 1914- Bring out your dead.

ISBN:

0812232100

9780812232103

0812214234

9780812214239

OCLC:

27812804