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

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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$Ci 3¢9 i long, and. not) all along inhabited .as it contained a number of) ftables) near. forty perfons died, whereas Market-{treet did not loofe nearas many in eight or nine {quares. fiw bos <a \ aa cae ‘The mere fight of the great number of, deaths; which ‘is annexed to this book, will excite with- out doubt different emotions in the minds of dil- tant readers, ‚and: they will certainly with to read what impreffions thefe; mournful months ‚have made upon the minds. of the inhabitants of the city, itfelf, But it would require a much abler hand to paint the whole extent of thefe fenti SI ents. a a / rit | ua „+ [Sufferings of the Sick.] Watt mie: _ 1 want words to exprefs the incredible. fuffers ings of fome of the fick; the vifible anxiety; the violent ftruggles, the labour of nature, the. moft dreadful concuffions of the whole frame, which manifefted themfelves in many of the dying. Some, it is true, funk tranquil into the arms of - death, for it..was the nature of this diforder, to aflume different fhapes; but to fpeak in the language oficriptureand in that fenfe in which the following expreflions ought perhaps to be taken, I mutt fay— The far greater part died the death, All the powers of death feemed to affail them, and they moftly experienced a dreadful end. [Melancholy fituation of the Healthy. ] - Thofe whos sere ftilb-well among us, generally | fhewed how much the fear of death opprefled their a as Bi F ’$