Purge and bleed : Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic and the stagnation of American medicine / Marshall Foletta.

Benjamin Rush, civic health, and human illness in the early American republic / Sarah E. Naramore.

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Purge and bleed : Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic and the stagnation of American medicine / Marshall Foletta.

Benjamin Rush, civic health, and human illness in the early American republic / Sarah E. Naramore.