Facts and observations, relative to the origin, progress and nature of the fever : which prevailed in certain parts of the city and districts of Philadelphia, in the summer and autumn of the present year (1802) / by William Currie & Isaac Cathrall ; to which is added, a summary of the rise and progress of the disease in Wilmington, communicated by Dr. E.A. Smith & Dr. John Vaughan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Currie, William, 1754-1828 4335

Contributor:

Cathrall, Isaac, 1764-1819

Smith, E. A.

Vaughan, John, 1775-1807

Language:

English

Physical Description:

40, xviii p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : William W. Woodward, 1802.

Notes:

"A list of persons who died of the yellow fever, in ... Philadelphia, in the year 1802": p. [38]-40.

"Appendix" (including accounts of the fever at Wilmington): xviii p. at end. John Vaughan's account was published in fuller form in his A concise history of the autumnal fever ... in ... Wilmington, in ... 1802 (Wilmington, 1803) E.A. Smith's account is extracted from a letter dated Dec. 14, 1802.

Signatures: [A]-G[superscript 4]H[superscript 1].

Local Notes:

Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database.

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Shaw, 2107