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- Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction to the 1993 Edition
- pp. ix-xvi
- Preface to the 1949 Edition
- pp. xvii-xxii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- ''A Merry, Sinful Summer"
- pp. 1-7
- Infection in Water Street
- pp. 8-28
- Fever, Domestic and Foreign
- pp. 29-44
- Prevention, Personal and Civic
- pp. 45-63
- "This Excellent Physician"
- pp. 114-139
- The Committee
- pp. 173-194
- "Sangrado"
- pp. 195-215
- The Fugitives
- pp. 216-232
- Height of the Plague
- pp. 233-259
- Afterwards
- pp. 280-286
Additional Information
ISBN
9780812291179
Related ISBN(s)
9780812214239
MARC Record
OCLC
44954926
Pages
334
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No