A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States : to which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles, and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793 / by Mathew Carey.

  • Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
Date:
1794
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Credit: A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States : to which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles, and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793 / by Mathew Carey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    A SHORT ACCOUNT, &e» Chap. L Slate of Philadelphia previous to the appearance of* the malignant fever—with a few ohfervations- on fome ■ of the probable cqnfequences of that calamity. BEFORE I enter on the confkleration of this dis- order, it may not be improper to offer a few in* troduclory remarks on the fituation of Philadelphia previous to its commencement, which will refie6b light on fome of the circumftances -mentioned in the courfe of the narrative. The manufactures, trade, and commence of this city, had, for a confiderable time, been improving and extending with great rapidity. From the period of the adoption of the federal government, at which time America was at the loweft ebb of diftrefs, her Situation had progrefiively become more and more profperous. Confidence, formerly banifhed, was uni- verfally reflored. Property of every kind, rofe to, and in fome inftances beyond, its real value : and a few revolving years exhibited the interefling Spectacle of a young country, with a new form of government, emerging from a flate which approached very near to anarchy, and acquiring all the liability and nerve of the befl-toned and oldefl nations. In this prosperity, which revived the almofl-extin- guifhed hopes of four millions of people, Philadelphia, participated in an eminent degree. Numbers of new houfes, in almofl every ftreet, built in a very neat,, elegant Stile, adorned, at the Same time that they greatly enlarged, the city. Its population was extend- ing faft. Houfe-rent had rifen to an extravagant height j it was in many caSes double, and in fome B