An Account of the Yellow Fever, Which Occurred in the City of New-York: In the Year 1822; To Which Is Prefixed, a Brief Sketch of the Different ... Years 1798, 1799, 1803 and 1805, With the Opi - Hardcover

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Excerpt from An Account of the Yellow Fever, Which Occurred in the City of New-York: In the Year 1822; To Which Is Prefixed, a Brief Sketch of the Different Pestilential Diseases, With Which This City Was Afflicted, in the Years 1798, 1799, 1803 and 1805, With the Opinion of Several of Our Most Eminent Physicians

I most respectfully submit to the perusal of my fel low citizens, this little volume. The subject is peculiar ly interesting and has excited the inquiry of many of the most eminent physicians, not only in the United States, but also in Europe. Many books have been written on the subject of Yellow Fever; but there appears to be still as great a diversity of opinion respecting its origin, amongst medical gentlemen, as there was about one hun dred and twenty years ago, when it first made its appear ance in this country.

Whether physicians will ever agree upon this subject, I know not; but if they cannot unite in opinion respect ing its origin, it would certainly be of infinite importance, if they would consult together and endeavour to devise the most effectual mode of its cure. When an evil be fals us, it is an object of little consequence to know from whence it came. The main point is to ascertain the means of removing it.

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