A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, for the reflecting Christian / By J. Henry C. Helmuth ... Translated from the German by Charles Erdmann.

  • Justus Christian Henry Helmuth
Date:
1794
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Credit: A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, for the reflecting Christian / By J. Henry C. Helmuth ... Translated from the German by Charles Erdmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » (All the advice that can be given to you, in your prefent mournful fituation, is contained in thefe few words; Return unio the Lord! acknowledge with contrition that you have neglected your poor children—confider the dreadful indifference for your family; your neglect of prayer—but alas ! where fhallione begin and where.end the catalogue of all ‘that has been, deficient in this, refpect in moft families! remember, at. the fame time, the dying groans—the laft agonies of the departing fpirit-—the lonely melancholy funeral of your de- ceafed fon or daughter ; to thefe reflections add the queftion, haveynot I perhaps neglected my child? fortlefs, as was. to» allappearance-the cafe? and if this .confideration will not induce you, to look with horror on your dangerous condition, and to thing—nothing:can move you; you are hardened, abyis of hell is juftly your due. | [The diforder was contagious. ] ‚The: moft dreadful circumftance in this terrible any perfon afflicted with it, could efcape the in- fection ; and that all thofe, who were infedted, could generally trace the place where they had. taken the feeds of the difeafe. In fome, this deadly poifon fhewed its effects immediately ; in others, by flower degrees. I have known inftances, of perfons, to appearance hearty | ki