[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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    ( ) tion rnuft be rejeded. They could not have infeded the crew of the Iris in the fecond mode, becaufe it is not alledgcd that they flopped a moment when palling over her deck. But admitting they did, it cannot be believed, that a difeafe could be conveyed by their cloaths, to the crew of the Iris in tlie open air, when it is well known, that thefe cloaths when worn, and even ■v,vafhed in confined lodging houfes afterwards, did not jnfed a Angle perfon, in any part of the city. Laftly, it is highly improbable that the crew of the Iris could have been infeded by the timbers of the Arethufa, becaufe, we have no proofs that the contagion of the Yellow Fever ever adheres to wood; but admitting this to be pofTible, we rejed the probability of it, be- caufe, as we before obferved, the fhip had been well clcanfed and freely ventilated on her voyage from the Havanna to Philadelphia. We are the more difpofed to aferibe the deflrudion of contagion, if any had ex- ifted, to the pure air of the ocean, from having fo re- peatedly obferved the erfeds of country air in weak- ening or deftroying it in the United States. The Aca- demy arc moreover authorifed by Dr. Stewart to affert, that none of the family, with whom the five men of the Iris boarded, were infeded ; but that they preferv- ed their health the whole time of the prevalence of pur late epidemic. As the Iris lay at Pinc-flreet wharf, and entirely wi^h- jn the limits of the exhalations from the fnow Naviga-