[Proofs of the origin of yellow fever, in Philadelphia & Kensington, in the year 1797, from domestic exhalation, and from the foul air of the snow Navigation, from Marseilles, and from that of the ship Huldah, from Hamburgh : in two letters, addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania / by the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia].

  • Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia.
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[1798]
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Credit: [Proofs of the origin of yellow fever, in Philadelphia & Kensington, in the year 1797, from domestic exhalation, and from the foul air of the snow Navigation, from Marseilles, and from that of the ship Huldah, from Hamburgh : in two letters, addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania / by the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Pilot was attacked with a fever, the day of their arrival at the city, and went on fhore the fame day, when he was vifited by Dr. Currie, who has been much converfant with 'the Yellow Fever, and was fo fendble of the refemblance of his fymptoms to thofe of that difeafe, that he mentioned the cafe as fufpicious, to one of his friends. The Arethufa was moored at Mr. Jofeph Rudell’s wharf, outfide of two vedels which lay there when the arrived, her crew left her immediately after fhe was moored, and the next day returned for their cloathing, &c. when they eroded and re-croded the above men- tioned drips. Two boys only and the captain (who was on board occadonally) compofed the crew of the out- ermod drip, or that immediately contiguous to the Arethufa ; but the innermoft vedel, the brig Iris from Oporto, had a crew of the ufual number. On the twenty ninth day of July, dve men of this crew were taken ill with fever, and attended by Dr. J. Stuart, who flates in his report to the College of Phydcians, that the fymptoms were dmilar in all, tho’ varying in the degree of violence four of thefe recovered, but one died with unequivocal marks of the malignant. Yellow Fever. A fervant of George Latimer, Efq. who lived about ioo yards to the north of this vedel, and was frequently on the wharves, was attacked, July 30, with a fever which was highly contagious and ma- lignant, of which he died in a few days.1