Bring out your dead : the great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / John Harvey Powell.

Main entry:

Powell, J. H. (John Harvey), 1914-1971.

Title & Author:

Bring out your dead : the great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / John Harvey Powell.

Edition:

Reprint edition.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 326 pages : portraits, map (on lining papers) ; 23 cm.

Series:

The Rise of urban America

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A merry sinful summer" -- Infection in Water Street -- Fever, domestic and foreign -- Prevention, personal and civic -- Crisis -- Panic -- "The excellent physician" -- Bush Hill -- The committee -- "Sangrado" -- The fugitives -- Height of the plague -- Frost -- Afterwards.

ISBN:

0405024711
9780405024719

Subject:

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Yellow fever Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Yellow Fever history
Fièvre jaune Pennsylvanie Philadelphie.
Yellow fever
Pennsylvania Philadelphia

Added entries:

Rise of urban America.

Great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1893

Holdings:

Location: Library main 23728
Call No.: W3332; ID:88-B10162
Status: Available

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