An account of the rise, progress, and termination, of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : briefly stated from authentic documents.

Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: An account of the rise, progress, and termination, of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : briefly stated from authentic documents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    her merchants were princes, and her traffickers were the honourable of the earth. This uncommon flow of prof, perity had its too common effect. The ci- tizens too generally had forgotten the Fountain from whom all their bleffings flowed ; and impioufly faid or fecmed to fay by thy great wifdom and by thy traf- fie, haft thou encreafed thy riches. By the unfortunate divifions in St. Doinitt. go, one of the French Iflands, many of its in- habitants, to avoid the fire and fword of their ftronger antagonifb, had fled from their homes, and, about the time the contagion took place in Philadelphia, a large number of them fought refuge among us. Before they had left their own burning and bloody fhores their hearts had been appalled by fcenes of the mull atrocious cruelly, and by the fight of numerous bodies of the flain which had remained unhuriedfor many days: fo that the air mud hive become too polluted for healthful refprration, had they been per- mitted to ftay. Many of thefe unfortunate refugees came in veifJs exceedingly croud, ed ; as well as poorly provided with the means JiecefTary to preferve health; had they even