[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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    anfwer to this letter, the opinion which your refearches and experience have enabled you to form on the im- portant objeCt of theprefent inveftigation. I am, refpe&fully, Sir, Your mod obedient, Humble Servant, THOMAS MIFFLIN. Dr. Benjamin Rush. Anfwer U the foregoing. Sir, T N compliance with your requeft, the fubfcribers have devoted themfelves to the inveftigation of the origin, progrefs and nature of the fever which lately prevailed in our city, and we have now the honor i of communicating to you the refult of our enquiries and obfervations. We conceive the fever which has lately prevailed in our city, commonly called the yellow fever, to be the bilious remitting fever of warm climates excited to a higher degree of malignity by circumftances to be men- tioned hereafter. Our reafons for this opinion are as follows : I. The famenefs of their origin ; both being the offspring of putrefaction. Of this there are many proofs in the hiftories of the yellow fever in the Weft- Indies. Where there is no putrefaction, the Weft-