An account of the rise, progress, and termination, of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia. Briefly stated from authentic documents.
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
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![that reflects much credit onthe neghbouring _country, people is that.our markets were to- jerably well {upplied with every neceffary of life, ufuall ly to be found in. them 3; and that. at no confid erable advance i in the price, Although the predominant feature of the city while the mortality raged at the ex- .treme, was terror and difmay;, and altho’ moft people fought their own fafety with too. little concern about others; there were feund. - men, who, at the imminent ‘rifque of their own lives, ftept.forward,. at the moft trying pinch, to aflift thofe who wanted the choice erthe means of flying. In this band of . worthies the poor met with friends in the day ofdiftrefs; and the helplefs orphan with a father. The country feat of William Hamilton at Bufh hill being an high and airy fituation, and atfome diftance from the city, was ta- ken and converted into an hofpital for the poor, and fuch as had not conveniencies of being-nurfed at their own homes. It foon eran crouded with patients ; and, from a concurrence of caufes, ina fbort time it fel] into great diferder. Unprincipled nurfes, ne. |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32886895_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
