An account of the malignant fever, lalely [sic] prevalent in the city of New-York / by James Hardie, A.M. ; copy-right secured according to act of Congress.

  • Hardie, James, 1758-1826.
Date:
1799
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Credit: An account of the malignant fever, lalely [sic] prevalent in the city of New-York / by James Hardie, A.M. ; copy-right secured according to act of Congress. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    icled one. My wife was taken in labour on the 20th Sept. about 9 in the evening. I applied to riiarty Doctors and Midwives. Some were really lick j fome pretended to be fo, and others candidly told me, that in confequence of the peftilence, which prevailed in my vicinity, they would on no account attend. At five in the en filing morn- ing, I applied to Mrs. Bunting, a midwife at Deans dock Greenwich Street, who immediately came with me. I would not have mentioned this circumftance ; but that it afterwards came to my knowledge, that Mrs. Bunting, in cafes where the diforder raged with the utmoft malignity, never helitated to attend any perfons in that fituation, and that too in many cafes where fhe mufl have been con- vinced, Ihe would never receive any emolument. Such inftances of dilinte'refted philamhropy, ought not, in a pub- lication of this fort to be omitted. They do-honour to human nature. ' No difeafe has, perhaps, on any previous occafion been more fatal to phyficians, than that with which We were lately afflicled : for during its prevalence, exclufive of medical ftudents, no lefs than fixteen phyficians have been l'wcpt off, ra discharging the perilous dudes of their profelTion. Thefe are Doctors Andrews, Brooks, D. Chickering, Disgley, Peter Faugeres, John B. Hickfc, ]ohn B. [ones, Melchen Caldwell, Lamb, Millegari, J. B. Scandella, Elihu H. Smith, Teller, Tredwell, V3- lick, and Young. As all thefe gentlemen fell facrifices to their endeavours to relieve the diftrefTed, it might appear invidious, were I to point out thofe, who in my opinion were moft uleful and eminent in their profeflion. 1 ihall therefore only mention fhe cafe of J. B. Sr:andella, who, being a foreigner of diftinguifhed literary abilities, and poffeffed of the moil philanthropic principles, along with the others, fell a facrifrce to his humanity. This gentleman was a native of Venice, and defcended of one of the moft noble families in that country. He was, however, more diftinguifhed by the fpelndour of his ta- lents, than by the nobility of his birth. A liberal curiofi- ty had led him to this country, when he had juft finifhed his refearches, and was preparing to embark for Europe,