Bring Out Your Dead - The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

"A brilliant and model treatment of one of the most macabre incidents in American History."--

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction to the 1993 Edition

Preface to the 1949 Edition

Acknowledgments

''A Merry, Sinful Summer''

Infection in Water Street

Fever, Domestic and Foreign

Prevention, Personal and Civic

Crisis

Panic

"This Excellent Physician"

Bush Hill

The Committee

"Sangrado"

The Fugitives

Height of the Plague October

Frost

Afterwards

Notes

Index

About the author

By J. H. Powell. Introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood

Summary

"A brilliant and model treatment of one of the most macabre incidents in American History."--

Product details

• Authors: J H Powell, J. H. Powell
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1993
• EAN: 9780812214239
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1423-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving; Studies in Health, Illness, &; Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving; Studies in Health, Illness, &; Studies in Health, Illness, an
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous