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Bring Out Your Dead : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / J. H. Powell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Health, Illness, and CaregivingPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1949Description: 1 online resource (334 p.) : 11 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812214239
  • 9780812291179
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.541097481109033
LOC classification:
  • RC211.P5 -- P6 1993eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780812291179

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)