A letter to Dr. Percival, on the prevention of infectious fevers. And an address to the College of physicians at Philadelphia, on the prevention of the American pestilence ... Read to the Literary and philosophical society of Bath / by John Haygarth.

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1801
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Percival, on the prevention of infectious fevers. And an address to the College of physicians at Philadelphia, on the prevention of the American pestilence ... Read to the Literary and philosophical society of Bath / by John Haygarth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the epidemick? Whence came they? Was the i Fever at that place? 5thly. At the height of the epidemick, and in % the part of the city where it principally raged, were any and what number of families totally free from the Distemper, at certain periods of its progress? What publications among you give the most instructive account of this Pestilence, which appears # to be falsely denominated the Yellow Fever. Do any of them contain the intelligence I solicit in re- gard to the communication of the poison? Can you send me a full abstract of such intelligence? Is this Distemper some species of the Plague? Chi- sholm appears to me to give the most intelligent account of the fatal Pestilence in the West-Indies. Does it correspond with your observations in North- America? Your Letters respecting the Small-Pox, printed in my late publications, contain matters so This fact is universally admitted, I believe, by all the con- tending parties, and it has been particularly confirmed to me, on the best authority, by his Excellency the Honourable Mr. Ellsworth. This circumstance alone will have great weight with every judicious reader, and will produce an high degree of conviction that the American Pestilence always originates from foreign Contagion. The manner in which the Plague and the Small-Pox are introduced into a place, frequently eludes the most diligent researches; and yet no person in this country doubts, that these Distempers always originate from some communication of the Pestilential and Variolous Poisons. much
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