Additional facts and observations relative to the nature and origin of the pestilential fever / by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

  • College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date:
1806
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    Letter from Dr. Eneds Muhfon, to Dr. William Shippek. .. ■ 'J - . 'i .'i : ‘ ‘ ; '■ Neiv-Haven, May 3^/, 1805, Sir, nv) ill] .1 i.r V •• i.!> I.ji- .7 - Yours of th^r- 27th -ult, in due time came to handji.but my ill healdi prevented that immediate attention to the fubjeft which it merited, and might have been expected. : „ ; , . in the year 1794,'we, were yifited with the Yel- low Fever in this town : I theti took much pains to find out*and afcertain the origin of it, by collefting fa(ds. My fcrutiriy in the affair excited others to the fame inquiry- We foupd the fafts to be fuch, as foon convinced the more thinking part of the town, that it was introduced by the floop Iris, and fpread by contagion, from one to. another, in almofi; every inffance, as far as it prevailed. The fad:s were at that time fo recent and obvious, and the public mind was fo fully convinced, that I neglect- ed the neceflary fleps to authenticate my communica- tions to Mr. Webfter, which he publilhed, not ap- prehending the importance and confequence of it; but as thofe faCts were, in the public prints, faid to be Hated from popular tales and idle reports, I was under the neceffity, about two years fince, of going over the ground again, in vindication of my charac- ter,