Medical and physical memoirs, containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States / [Charles Caldwell].

  • Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Medical and physical memoirs, containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States / [Charles Caldwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pagef origin, -when properly understood, less injurious to the interest and reputation of our City, than that of importation, - - - — ■. - - - - - -116 No. VI. • An attempt to solve the following- question, ®/z. Why does the filth of Philadelphia produce Yellow Fever now, whereas it did not, in former years, when much more abundant than it is at present ? - - - - _ 129 No. VII, Reason why Yellow Fever has always made its first appearance, as an epidemic, in Philadelphia, in the neighbourhood of the wharves—The question, so often proposed, u Why does Yellow Fever never originate and pievail, in the country, or, in inland towns, remote from commercial cities?” considered—Farther objections against the doctrine of importation, - _ ... 14^ No. VIII, % % A summary of objections against the contagion, and consequent against the importability of Yellow Fever, /he former plagues of Great Britain, not imported inm rhat Nknd, but generated, in a great measure, by the filth of the inhabitants—Conclusion, - - . 160 No. IX, °f’ ad Ejections to, Dr. Chisholm’s account of the introduction of a contagious fever into he town of St. George (Grenada), from the Colony of Bul ama, in the spr.ng of ninety three—The improbability PhilnTlT fTr- avlng been brought from Grenada to Philadelphia, during the summer of the same year, even to? 11 h>d ,btr inmd^ forZ place from the coast of Africa, U5