Bring Out Your Dead : : The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 / / J. H. Powell.
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 Yo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©1949 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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Table of 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