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An account of the terrible effects of the pestilential infection in the city of Philadelphia. With an elegy on the deaths of the people. Also a song of praise and thanksgiving, composed for those who have recovered, after having been smitten with that dreadful contagion. By the Honourable Samuel Stearns, J.U.D. [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1793 Ste Ap 793 S9
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809 21346
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [4],8p. ; 12°.
- Place of Publication:
- Providence : Printed for William Child, in Johnston, [1793?]
- Notes:
- In verse.
- Author's preface dated Nov. 13, 1793.
- Advertisement for Stearns' The American oracle, and for the Freemason's calendar for 1794, p. 8.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 26206; Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1342; Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1816; Stoddard, R.E. Unrecorded Wegelin, 233
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