[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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    even the fainted evidence, of the fhip Hind having been at all inftrumental, in the introduction of this difeafe ? ^ There certainly exilts none. Nor, in a candid invefti- gation of the fubjeCt, does there appear to be ground fulficient to authorile, even the mention of the name 1 of this velfel. As the College of Phyficians appear, however, by their late pamphlet, to have directed to the Hind, * an undue (bare of public attention, it has become necef- i fary to make their narrative refpeCting her, a fubjeCt of particular confideration. The only evidence of which that learned body are poflefled, refpeCting the hckly Hate of this veffiel,' is derived from the affidavits of three common mariners belonging to her crew; two of whom were nothing more than boys. In oppofition to the evidence delivered in thefe affidavits, we would here beg leave to fubmit to the public, the affidavit of the fupercargo cf the Hind. The report, deliv- ered in his depofition, is farther corroborated by the joint teltimony of three other refpeCtable characters, on board the fame veffiel. From this document, it will at once appear, on how equivocal a foundation, the College have thought proper to rtffi this part of their inveftigation, refpeCting the origin of the difeafe in quehion. Sir*. ^ ‘Zy'sfc-A