A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States / [Mathew Carey].

  • Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Date:
1793
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Credit: A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States / [Mathew Carey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C *7 ) . “ . » < f r ' 1 ^ though he did not give it abfolutely as his own, lie feemed ftrongly to incline; and mentioned, that at a wharf, a little above Arch-ftreet, !• * * ^ there was not only a quantity of damaged cof¬ fee*, extremely oftenlive, but alfo fome putrid animal and vegetable fubftances. The doctor relied his opinion, that the diforder was not imported, on two circumftances, which prove to be miftaken. Viz. that no foreigners or failors were infected on the 27th of Auguft, the time of writing, and that it had not been found in lodging houfes. This opinion was fo far from being juft, that the fecond place in which it is known to have made its appearance, was a lodg- ing houfe, and fome of the earlieft patients were French lads. Dr. Rulh is of the fame opinion with dr. Hut- chinfon, and fays he has in his pofteffion fufficient documents to prove that the diforder is not an imported one, but of native growth. As he has NOTE. * The (tench of this coffee was fo exceilively cffenfive, that the people in the neighbourhood could hardly bear to remain in the bach part of their houfes. c,