An account of the yellow fever, which occurred in the city of New-York, in the year 1822 : To which is prefixed a brief sketch of the different pestilential diseases, with which this city was afflicted, in the years 1798, 1799, 1803 & 1805, with the opinion of several of our most eminent physicians, respecting the origin of the disease, its prevention and cure. To which is added a correct list of all the deaths by yellow fever during the late season, taken from official documents / by James Hardie.

  • Hardie, James, 1758-1826.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An account of the yellow fever, which occurred in the city of New-York, in the year 1822 : To which is prefixed a brief sketch of the different pestilential diseases, with which this city was afflicted, in the years 1798, 1799, 1803 & 1805, with the opinion of several of our most eminent physicians, respecting the origin of the disease, its prevention and cure. To which is added a correct list of all the deaths by yellow fever during the late season, taken from official documents / by James Hardie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r PREFACE. I MOST respectfully submit to the perusal of my fel- iow citizens, this little volume. The subject is peculiar- ly interesting and has excited the inquiry of many of the most eminent physicians, not only in the United States, but also in Europe. Many books have been written on the subject of Yellow Fever; but there appears to be still as great a diversity of opinion respecting its origin, amongst medical gentlemen, as there was about one hun- » dred and twenty years ago, when it first made its appear- ance in this country. ee Whether physicians will ever agree upon this subject, I know not; but if they cannot unite in opinion respect- ing its origin, it would certainly be of infinite importance, the most effectual mode of its cure. When an evil be- fals us, it is an object of little consequence to know from whence it came. The main point is to ascertain the means of removing it. To the account of the Yellow Fever, with which we of those, which occurred in former years, viz. from 1798 to the present period. This will shew, that whatever all probability, be so destructive to the lives of our citi- zens as it has been formerly, (Yo Ste \