The great pestilence in Virginia : being an historical account of the origin, general character, and ravages of the yellow fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1855; together with sketches of some of the victims ... / by William S. Forrest.

  • Forrest, William S.
Date:
1856
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Credit: The great pestilence in Virginia : being an historical account of the origin, general character, and ravages of the yellow fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1855; together with sketches of some of the victims ... / by William S. Forrest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PACK CHAPTER XXIII. An Afflicted Family—A Daughter's Devotion—Sudden Death—An Infant Sufferer—A Minister's Son wrecked by the Scourge—A frightful and pitiable object—Some of the Victims—The Birds and the Pestilence—Bill, the Cake-boy—The Fire-bells—The Gaslights and the Lamp- lighter—The City at Night—Music in the Pestilence—A fair Sufferer 192 CHAPTER XXIV. The Southern Argus—A. F. Leonard, Esq.—Eloquent Sketch of the Pestilence—The Grave-yard?—The Buried—The Bereaved—The remembered Horrors of the Scourge— The quietly-sleeping Dead—Condition of the City—Day and Night—Life and Activity returning—Words of En- couragement—Prospects of Norfolk and Portsmouth 203 CHAPTER XXY. Mayor Woodis—William B. Ferguson 212 CHAPTER XXVI. Resident Clergy—Rev. William M. Jackson—Rev. An- thony Dibrell 219 CHAPTER XXVII. Rev. James Chisholm—Rev. Francis Devlin—Rev. Wm. C. Bagnall — Rev. Vernon Eskridge — Rev. William Jones 225 CHAPTER XXVIII. The Resident Physicians—Drs. Silvester—Higgins—Up- shur—Constable—Selden 231 CHAPTER XXIX. Drs. Halson, Nash, Briggs, Tunstall, Silvester, jr., and the resident Physicians of Portsmouth 243