Second address to the citizens of Philadelphia, containing additional proofs of the domestic origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever : to which are added, observations, intended to shew that a belief in that opinion, is calculated to lessen the mortality of the disease, and to prevent its recurrence / by Benjamin Rush.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Second address to the citizens of Philadelphia, containing additional proofs of the domestic origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever : to which are added, observations, intended to shew that a belief in that opinion, is calculated to lessen the mortality of the disease, and to prevent its recurrence / by Benjamin Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ( iv ) refpeding the origin of your annual calamity. You are amply competent to underftand, and determine the controverfy j for it would be a denial of goodnefs to the Supreme Being to fuppofe, he had not endued the common faculties of man, with the rneans of difcover- ing, and obviating the common phyfical evils of his life. To aft properly, upon the im- portant fubjeft before you, it will only be neceflary for you to examine, and think for yourfelves. THE AUTHOR. November i8/^, 1799*