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Meditations written during the prevalence of the yellow fever, in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 : which proved fatal to upwards of 4000 of its inhabitants / by Joshua Cresson.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1815 Mur LCP (b.w.)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cresson, Joshua, 1744-1793 48768
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Yellow fever.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 23 p. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed and sold by W. Phillips, 1803.
- Notes:
- Edited by William Dillwyn with a prefatory note dated London, 1803. cf. Sabin.
- "To thes Meditations (found after his decease) the writer does not appear to have made any addition: on third day, the 15th, he was himself attacked by the prevalent disease, and died on the 21st"--P. 20.
- Memoir by author's widow, signed Mary Cresson, Philadelphia, the 27th of the 3rd month, 1794 (p. 21-23).
- Local Notes:
- Library imperfect: title page wanting.
- No. 12 of 15 bound pamphlets.
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Sabin, 17484
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