Bring Out Your Dead : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / J. H. Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, J. H., Author.

Contributor:

Foster, Kenneth R.

Jenkins, Mary F.

Toogood, Anna Coxe

Series:

Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Local Subjects:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction to the 1993 Edition

Preface to the 1949 Edition

Acknowledgments

“A Merry, Sinful Summer”

Infection in Water Street

Fever, Domestic and Foreign

Prevention, Personal and Civic

Crisis

Panic

“This Excellent Physician”

Bush Hill

The Committee

“Sangrado”

The Fugitives

Height of the Plague

Frost

Afterwards

Notes

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780812291179

0812291174

9780585127187

0585127182

OCLC:

922730942