Purge and bleed : Philadelphia's Yellow Fever epidemic and the stagnation of American medicine / Marshall Foletta.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Foletta, Marshall, 1955- author.

Contributor:

• JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
• Epidemics--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
• Public health--United States--History--18th century.
• Medicine--United States--History--18th century.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (unpaged)

Other Title:

Philadelphia's Yellow Fever epidemic and the stagnation of American medicine

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025.

Contents:

• 1793 : An "awful visitation"
• Benjamin Rush gives an ancient theory a new twist
• Philadelphia's medical establishment : divided at the top and threatened from below
• The fractured response to the 1793 epidemic
• America's first medical journals and the battle for authority
• Cholera and the emergence of the Gothic in American medical culture
• Other voices : pharmacists, Thomsonians, and homeopaths
• Voices ignored : from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Josiah Clark Nott
• After a century the mystery is solved.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Foletta, Marshall, 1955- Purge and bleed

ISBN:

• 0813953138
• 9780813953137

Publisher Number:

40032840562

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.