A second address to the citizens of Philadelphia, containing additional proofs of the domestic origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever : to which are added, observations, intended to shew that a belief in that opinion, is calculated to lessen the mortality of the disease, and to prevent its recurrence / by Benjamin Rush.

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A second address to the citizens of Philadelphia, containing additional proofs of the domestic origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever : to which are added, observations, intended to shew that a belief in that opinion, is calculated to lessen the mortality of the disease, and to prevent its recurrence / by Benjamin Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and yet the fame law permits phyficians, nurfes, and the members of the board of health to go into any houfe or ftreet they pleafe after attending, or vifiting patients in the city in every ftage of the fever. But there is fomething much worfe than folly in this health law. By admitting the yellow fever to be propagated exclufively by contagion, it has produced the defertion of the lick by friends, and relations, and fometimes the exclufion of (han- gers to perifh in the ftreet, or in a barn. By thefe means, fo (hocking to humanity, it has added greatly to the mortality of the difeafe. It has moreover impofed a painful quarantine of fifteen or twenty days upon our mariners in a fickly fitua- tion in the hot months, within a few miles of their friends. It is worthy of notice, that quarantine laws have never been adopted by Britain, France nor Spain, in their long and extenfive intercourfe with their refpeftive iflands, to guard againft the importation of the yellow fever. To none of thofe European countries has that fever ever been communicated by the (hoals of fick, and convalefcenc failors and foldiers that have arrived in them, both in peace and war, from every part of the Weft Indies. Their quarantine laws are intended to operate chiefly againft (hips coming from the Levant and other