Short History of the Yellow Fever, That Broke Out in the City of Philadelphia, in July, 1797: With a List of the Dead; Of the Donations for the Relief ... Interesting Particulars (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The citizens became more early aware of their danger than in 17 9 3 and the fpeedy flight of many thoufands of them into the country, feems to have been the chief caule why the mortality of this contagion has been/{o much leis violent than that of the former. By the way; though not fo generally known as to create alarm, it is true, that in the fall of r 794, Philadelphia had a tranfient vifit from this fatal fcourge. A fmall number of perlons, perhaps twenty or thirty, died of it. The unexpected intervention of one or two days of a wind more than ufually cold for that feafon of the year, was the apparent caufe of its abrupt extinc~ tiou. Perhaps the infettion might be leis violent in its nature than that of the former year. It is well known,, that the plague, while remaining identically the fame dif cafe, hath yet very dillerent degrees of violence in its fr(4)

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