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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    It is to be lamented that medicine is ftill in the pagan and favage (late from which religion and philofophy have happily emerged in our country. We no longer worfhip every inflrument by which the Supreme Being conveys hisgoodnefs to us, as a feparate deity, nor do we believe with the Indians fnow, ice, and water to be diftincl: effences; but diffe- rent forms of the fame original fubflance. The fame unity obtains in the morbid dates of the fyftem in the fummer and autumnal months. All the different forms of difeafe, in that period are the effects of one caufe. Its force is varied in different months, and in different parts of the city according to the greater or lefs activity of the putrid exhalation, but its nature is always and every where the fame. All truth is ufeful. Let us next examine the propofitions which have been delivered by the teft of their utility. By believing that we have but one difeafe in our city after the firft of June, and that this difeafe according to circumftances, may be a malignant one, we {hall be led, i. To remove filth of every kind from our doors cellars and yards, and to avoid all the other re- mote, or external caufes of difeafe. 2. To