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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References note

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

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

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