COLLECTION NAME:
Rare and Distinctive Collections Teaching Collection
Record
Identifier:
nspc_rush_yellow_fever_opt
Title:
Observations upon the origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever in Philadelphia, and upon the means of preventing it
Creator:
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Subject:
Yellow fever
Subject:
Yellow Fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Subject:
Disease Outbreaks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Description:
28 pages; 21 cm.
Description:
"Having laboured nearly six years to no purpose, to persuade the citizens of Philadelphia that yellow fever is of domestic origin...; a retrospect of the scenes and distress which I have witnessed from that terrible disease...have induced me to make one more effort to prevent them, by pointing out their causes, and remedies."
Publisher:
Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia
Contributor:
Bailey, D. K. (Dana Kavanagh)
Date:
1799-07-16
Format:
Text
Source:
For more information about the physical collection, visit the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections.
Language:
English
Relation:
b7593256
Relation:
i8936675x
Relation:
b75932568
Rights:
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