[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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    Fever, and the diftance of time at which it ufually ap- pears, after perfons have been expofedto the contagion, the Academy conceive it fcarcely poffible, if any porti- on of contagion had been left by the before-mentioned perfons, that it would have remained inadive for above forty fix days, expofed as the crew were to the ex- citing caufes of fatigue, night watching and the vicifitudes of the weather. The perfc<T freedom from difeafe which all on board enjoyed, mull therefore be admitted as proof that no contagion did exift, and confequently that the pilot and others could not have ' derived their dileafe from that fource. The College further ftate that {< The pilot was t( attacked with a fever, the day of his arrival with iC the flfip at the city, and went on fhore the fame <c day, when he was vifited by Dr. Currie, who has *f been much converfant with the Yellow Fever, and “ who was fo fenfiblc of rhe refemblance of his <c fymptoms to tliofe of that difeafe, that he mention- « ed the cafe as fufpicious to one of his friends.” In addition to the arguments, before adduced, for fuppofing that the pilot could not have taken his difeafe from any remains of contagion on board, the Academy further remark, that the fource from whence he derived his difeafe was probably, and as he be- lieves, from a current of cold air during the night, while fleeping in the open cabbin of the fhip, after a warm day, which preceded that on which the qua-