An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793 / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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    mittent of the city. Many of the citizens, joined the phyficians in endeavouring to difcredit the ac- count I had given of this fever, and for a while, it was treated with ridicule or contempt. Indig- nation in fome inflances was excited againfl me, and one of my friends whom I advifed in this early flage of the diforder, to leave the city, has fmce told me that for that advice, he had hated me. My lot in having thus diflurbed the repofe of the public mind, upon the fubject of general health, was not a fingular one. There are many inflances upon record, of phyficians who have ren- dered themfelves unpopular, and even odious to their fellow citizens, by giving the firft notice of the exiftence of malignant and mortal difeafes. A phyfician who afferted that the plague was in Mef- fina in the year 1743, excited fo much rage in the minds of his fellow citizens againfl him, as to ren- der it neceflary for him to fave his life, by retreat- ing to one of the churches of that city. In fpite, however, of all oppofition, the report of the exiftence of a malignant and contagious fe- ver in the city, gained fo much ground, that the governor of the Mate directed Dr Hutchinfon, the infpector of fickly velfels, to inquire into the truth «f