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

Date:
1793
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Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Benjamin Johnson, 1793.

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36, 12 pages ; (12mo)

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Notes

Evans 25075
Second of the two issues described by Edwin Wolf 2nd in Papers Bib. Soc. Amer., v. 63, 1969, p. 262
"Probably written by James Hardie" - J. H. Powell, Bring out your dead. Philadelphia, 1949, p. 288
"Committee for Relieving the Sick and Distressed, appointed by the citizens of Philadelphia ... 1793" (list of members): p. 35
"A short account of the plague in London, 1665 (written at that time)": 12 p. at end. An abridgment of Daniel Defoe's Journal of the plague year

References note

Austin 15
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 15
ESTC W10126
Evans, 25075

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