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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    ( « 3 kind to point out errors, to be corrected in, or fug- ged fads, to be added to, a new edition, which I pro- pofe to put to prefs very foon, and which will, I hope, be found more ample than the prefent one. PREFACE to the SECOND EDITION, November 23, 1793. WHEN I publifhed the firft edition of this pam- phlet, it was my intention to have greatly enlarged it for a fecond one, and to have new model- led it, fo as to preferve a connexion between its feve*. ral parts, in which it is extremely deficient. But its fpeedy fale, and the demand for more copies, renders it' impoffible for me to do more, at prefent, than make fuch corrections as the kindnefs of a few friends has led them to point out. In giving an account of the proceedings that took place on the fubjed of the diforder, throughout the union, I have fupprefTed many a harlh comment, which was forcing itfelf on me ; from the reflexion, that in fimilar circumftances we might perhaps have been equally fevere. And to perpetuate animofities is per- forming a very unfriendly office. They are eafily ge- nerated ; but their extindion is a work of time and difficulty. Let us, therefore, (efpecially when we cc hold the mirror up to nature’’ at home,) not only forgive, but even forget, if poffible, all the unpleafant treatment our citizens have experienced. I have heard more than one perfon objed to the ac- count of the Chocking circumftances that occurred in Philadelphia, as pourtraying the manners of the people in an unfavourable light, If that be the cafe, the fault is not mine. I am confcious I have not exaggerated the matter. But I do not conceive it can have that effed; for it would be as unjuft and injudicious to draw the charadcr of Philadelphia from the proceedings of a period of horror and affright, when all the 44 mild charities of focial life” were luppreffed by regard for