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A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia, Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, November 14, 1793 Courtesy National Library of Medicine. Matthew Carey, a printer, bookseller, and member of The Committee, documented the epidemic in his popular book.
Mathew Carey on the yellow fever of 1793 Author(s): Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 Contributor(s): Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, printer Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by the author, November 14, 1793 Language(s): English Format: Text Subject(s): Yellow Fever Disease Outbreaks Mortality
When the yellow fever prevailed in South Carolina, the negroes, according to that accurate observer, Dr. Lining, were wholly free from it. "There is something very singular in the constitution of the negroes," says he, "which renders them not liable to this fever; for though many of them were as much exposed as the nurses to this infection, yet I never knew one instance of this fever among ...
The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital, was the most cosmopolitan city in the United States. Two thousand free Black people lived there, as well as many recent white French-speaking arrivals from the colony of Santo Domingo, who left the islands as a result of ...
11. Juni 2020 · “It is called a yellow fever, ... When the publisher Mathew Carey, who served on the city’s health committee, issued his account of the epidemic beginning in October 1793, he accused members ...
20. Aug. 2021 · Minutes of the proceedings of the committee, appointed on the 14th September, 1793, by the citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and the District of Southwark, to attend to and alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted with the malignant fever by Lownes, Caleb. Call Number: E-Book. Publication Date: 1794.
Mathew Carey on the yellow fever of 1793 Author(s): Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 Contributor(s): Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, printer Publication: Philadelphia : Printed by the author, January 16, 1794 Language(s): English Format: Text Subject(s): Yellow Fever Disease Outbreaks Plague -- history History, 17th Century ...
