[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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    C 3c * ) brooms are open night and day, to the condant accefEort of frefl> air. We obferve in the memorial of the College of Phy- ficians an affertion, that the Yellow Fever “ Is ell'en- “ tially different from the fevers that occur in this cli- “ mate, and which originate from domeftic caufes but as no proofs are adduced in favour of that affer- tion, we (hall refl our opinion of the original famenefs of both thofe dates of fever, upon the fa&s and argu- ments which were dated in our former communica- tion. We (hall only obferve, that the idea maintained by the College, has been exploded by fome of the mod didinguifhed writers upon tropical difeafes; and by mod of the American phyficians of the fouthem dates, who condantly confider and treat both the com- mon bilious fever, and its higher grade, called Yellow Fever, as the fame difeafe, varying only in violence. The Academy obferve alfo, with furprife, another affertion made by the College, that The difeafe in “ quedion, invariably commences in our fea-ports, « while inland towns, equally expofed to the ordinary « caufes of fever, efcape.” To this we reply, it is well known, that in various parts of the United States, re- mote from fea-ports, prccifely the fame difeafe, with all its charadferidic fymptoms, has frequently prevailed. • * The College in their narrative have taken no notice of the origin of the Yellow Fever in Kenfington, nor at