[Proofs of the origin of yellow fever, in Philadelphia & Kensington, in the year 1797, from domestic exhalation, and from the foul air of the snow Navigation, from Marseilles, and from that of the ship Huldah, from Hamburgh : in two letters, addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania / by the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia].

  • Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia.
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[1798]
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Credit: [Proofs of the origin of yellow fever, in Philadelphia & Kensington, in the year 1797, from domestic exhalation, and from the foul air of the snow Navigation, from Marseilles, and from that of the ship Huldah, from Hamburgh : in two letters, addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania / by the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. N. Lewis, who kept a compting room which wa» about the fame diilance from the Arethufa, was attack- ed about the fame time, and died alfo in five days, of a fever which was fuppofed to be of the fame nature. Mr. Dominick Joyce, who was much engaged on board a {hip near the Arethufa, was attacked, Auguft 3d. with a fever of the fame kind but, but recovered. A man who lived in a (lore on the South fide of Pine Street, about 150 yards from the river, was attacked with a malignant fever about this time, and died in a few days. About the fixth of Auguft, Mr. Fergufon, whofe yard adjoined the wharf where the Arethufia and Iris lay, was attacked with a malignant fever, and the fame day Mr. John Plankinghorn’s girl, who lived nearly oppofite to Mr. Fergufon’s acrofs Penn Street, and worked in a yard which was fituated very near to the above mentioned (tore in Pine ftreet, was alfo attacked with fever, they both died on the fifth or fixth day after the attack. Mrs. Fergufon with very fufpicious, and Mr. Plankinghorn’s girl, with com- plete and unequivocal fymptoms of the Yellow Fever. In this manner the difeale continued to fpread, fo that by the middle of Auguft, or within three weeks from the arrival of the Arethufa, above ten perfons had died, who either lived or were engaged in bufinefs within 300 yards of the Arethufa, and this at a time when the other parts of the city were fo healthy, that it is