Occasional essays on the yellow fever : containing a number of remarkable relative facts, as well as some encouraging ideas, that those cities of America, which for more than ninety successive years, had been generally preserved from the dreadful evil, may by the divine blessing on wise and prudent measures, experience in future, a similar preservation from the dire calamities of a mortal pestilence : addressed to those who have not forgotten what has happened, within a few years, among their friends and fellow citizens / by a Philadelphian.

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Occasional essays on the yellow fever : containing a number of remarkable relative facts, as well as some encouraging ideas, that those cities of America, which for more than ninety successive years, had been generally preserved from the dreadful evil, may by the divine blessing on wise and prudent measures, experience in future, a similar preservation from the dire calamities of a mortal pestilence : addressed to those who have not forgotten what has happened, within a few years, among their friends and fellow citizens / by a Philadelphian. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Printed by John Ormrod, no. 41, Chesnut-Street, 1800.

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v, 1 unnumbered page, 7-42 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

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Evans 38145
Evans 35452
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1430
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 330
ESTC (RLIN) W2457

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Sometimes attributed to Samuel Sansom
Letters, dated Oct. 23, 1798-Nov. 22, 1799, which originally appeared in the Federalist; or, New-Jersey gazette
Additional letters by the same author were published in Philadelphia in 1802 under title: Interesting essays, chiefly on the subject of the yellow fever
Signatures: [A]1 chi⁴ B-E⁴
NLM Copy 2 : imperfect: title page wanting; this copy formed the basis of Evans 35452, an erroneous entry; Evans accepted from the first series of the Index Catalogue, under Philadelphian, the date 1799 and the supplied title: Essays relating to yellow fever. Cf. Austin.
Film 633 reel 69 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 69, no. 1430).

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