An account of the rise, progress, and termination, of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : briefly stated from authentic documents.

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MDCCXCIII [1793]
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An account of the rise, progress, and termination, of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : briefly stated from authentic documents. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Short account of the plague in London, 1665

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Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Benjamin Johnson, MDCCXCIII [1793]

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36, 12 pages ; 20 cm (12mo)

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Attributed to James Hardie by Austin
Two states noted by Edwin Wolf. In the earlier, "A list of burials" appears on a preliminary leaf pi1 and [A]1 verso is blank. In the later state, the list appears on [A]1 verso and there is no leaf pi1. Slight changes in the text were made as well. Cf. "Evidence indicating the need for some bibliographical analysis of American-printed historical works," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 63 (1969): 262
"A short account of the plague in London, 1665. (Written at that time.)"--12 p. at end. Abridged from Daniel Defoe's Journal of the plague year
Signatures: [A]⁶ B-D⁶
NLM copy: later state.
Film 633 reel 1 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 1, no. 15).

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Evans 25075
Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 4
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 15
ESTC (RLIN) W10126

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1960. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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