A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, for the reflecting Christian / by J. Henry C. Helmuth, Minister of the Lutheran congregation ; translated from the German by Charles Erdmann ; copy right secured according to law.

  • Justus Christian Henry Helmuth
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MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, for the reflecting Christian / by J. Henry C. Helmuth, Minister of the Lutheran congregation ; translated from the German by Charles Erdmann ; copy right secured according to law. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    long, and not all along inhabited as it contained a number of (tables) near forty perfons died, whereas Market-ftreet did not loofe near as many in eight or nine fquares. 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 dis- tant readers, and they will certainly wifti to read what imprefiions 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- ments. [Sufferings of the Sick.] I want words to exprefs the incredible fuffer- ings of fome of the fick ; the vifible anxiety, the violent druggies, the labour of nature, the mod dreadful concuffions of the whole frame, which manifested 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 affume different fhapes; but to fpeak in the language of fcripture and in that fenfe in which the following expreffions ought perhaps to be taken, I muft fay— The far greater partdi/d the dealh. Ail the powers of death feemed to adail them, and they moftly experienced a dreadful end. [Melancholy fituation of the Healthy.] Thofe who were (till well among us, generally mewed how much the fear of death opprelfed' their F