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RUSH, Benjamin (1745-1813). An Account of the Bilious remitting Yellow Fever, as it appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Years 1793. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1794.
8o (230 x 142mm). (Very light spotting to a few leaves.) Original blue-gray paper boards, ENTIRELY UNTRIMMED (rebacked in buckram, new endleaves added).
FIRST EDITION. A fine copy of Rush's classic study of the yellow fever epidemic which ravaged Philadelphia in August and September 1793. Rush describes the symptoms and course of the infected and records personal observations of many infected persons. For treatment, he recommends blood-letting and other ineffective measures, and although Rush commented on the prevalence of mosquitos in Philadelphia that summer, he believed the cause of the infection to have been a cargo of rotting coffee beans on a wharf. Yellow-fever's true source--a mosquito-borne bacillus--was not pinpointed until 1900 by Walter Reed (1851-1902). Austin 1631; Garrison & Morton 5453; NLM/Blake, p.393; Sabin 74198; Waller 8325; Norman 1862.
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FIRST EDITION. A fine copy of Rush's classic study of the yellow fever epidemic which ravaged Philadelphia in August and September 1793. Rush describes the symptoms and course of the infected and records personal observations of many infected persons. For treatment, he recommends blood-letting and other ineffective measures, and although Rush commented on the prevalence of mosquitos in Philadelphia that summer, he believed the cause of the infection to have been a cargo of rotting coffee beans on a wharf. Yellow-fever's true source--a mosquito-borne bacillus--was not pinpointed until 1900 by Walter Reed (1851-1902). Austin 1631; Garrison & Morton 5453; NLM/Blake, p.393; Sabin 74198; Waller 8325; Norman 1862.