An account of the epidemic yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of New-York in the year 1795 : containing, besides its history, &c., the most probable means of preventing its return, and of avoiding it, in case it should again become epidemic / by Valentine Seaman, M.D. one of the physicians of the health committee of New-York in 1795.

  • Valentine Seaman
Date:
1796
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Credit: An account of the epidemic yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of New-York in the year 1795 : containing, besides its history, &c., the most probable means of preventing its return, and of avoiding it, in case it should again become epidemic / by Valentine Seaman, M.D. one of the physicians of the health committee of New-York in 1795. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ E ] general, I wifh it to be confidered, that they are not the offspring of any favorite theory, or influential hypothecs; for I had heretofore been taught and be- lieved very differently, till the fiubborn obtrufion of facts upon my mind, forced me to change my opi- nion. I am well aware of the iofs of reputation that I may fuflain, from attempting, in the courfe of this effay, to fupport opinions which are very unpopular with the inhabitants of this city; however, the im- portance of the fubjed, has fwallowed up all perfo- nal confiderations, and determined me freely to com- municate what I confider as highly elfential to their welfare; and I mall be richly paid, if my temerity fh'all in the lead degree, tend to the prevention of a difeafe, which in its partial* operation, in lefs than three months, fwept off upwards of feven hundred of our fellow-citizens; which mould be fufficiently alarming to put us upon our guard in future, far mould it again arife, in a feafon more favorable to its fpreading, perhaps its more, uni-verfal devaluation will not be checked till it has numbered thoufands in its mortal lift. B * It being chiefly confined to a particular part of the city.