Bring Out Your Dead : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 /
Powell, J. H.
Bring Out Your Dead : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / J. H. Powell. - 1 online resource (334 p.) : 11 illus. - Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Frost -- Afterwards -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter
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In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812214239 9780812291179
10.9783/9780812291179 doi
American History.
American Studies.
Books of Regional Interest.
Caregiving.
Health.
History.
Medicine.
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800).
RC211.P5 -- P6 1993eb
614.541097481109033
Bring Out Your Dead : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / J. H. Powell. - 1 online resource (334 p.) : 11 illus. - Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Frost -- Afterwards -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812214239 9780812291179
10.9783/9780812291179 doi
American History.
American Studies.
Books of Regional Interest.
Caregiving.
Health.
History.
Medicine.
HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800).
RC211.P5 -- P6 1993eb
614.541097481109033