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105. Minutes of the proceedings of the committee, appointed on the 14th September, 1793, by the citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and the District of Southwark, to attend to and alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted with the malignant fever, prevalent, in the city and its vicinity: with an appendix

Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by R. Aitken & Son, and sold by J. Crukshank ... and the other booksellers, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Philadelphia

107. An official register of the deaths which occurred among the white population in the city of Savannah: during the extraordinary season of sickness and mortality which prevailed in the summer and fall months of the year 1820 : to which is annexed a list of the persons (so far as they could be ascertained) who died out of the city, after retreating from it : also, the aggregate amount of deaths among the people of color

Publication:
Savannah : Printed and published by Henry P. Russell, Dec. 1820
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality -- ethnology
Georgia -- ethnology

113. Remarks on the gaseous oxyd of azote or of nitrogene, and on the effects it produces when generated in the stomach, inhaled into the lungs, and applied to the skin: being an attempt to ascertain the true nature of contagion, and to explain thereupon the phenomena of fever

Author(s):
Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. and J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, 1795
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Fever -- etiology
Gases

114. An inquiry into the various sources of the usual forms of summer & autumnal disease in the United States, and the means of preventing them: to which are added, Facts, intended to prove the yellow fever not to be contagious

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by J. Conrad & Co., Philadelphia; M. & J. Conrad & Co., Baltimore; Rapin, Conrad, & Co., Washington; Somervell & Conrad, Petersburg; and Bonsal, Conrad, & Co., Norfolk; printed by T. & G. Palmer ..., 1805
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Yellow Fever -- transmission
United States

118. An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York: to which are added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, hospital-surgeon ; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society, on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions

Author(s):
Yates, Christopher C., 1778?-1848
Publication:
Albany : Printed by H. C. Southwick, no. 73, State-Street, 1813
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Fever
Military Medicine
New York -- epidemiology

124. An inaugural dissertation on the scarlatina anginosa, as it prevailed in this city: submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York : William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president; for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the thirtieth day of April, 1793

Author(s):
Taylor, Willett, -1811
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. and J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 27, William-Street, 1793
Subject(s):
Scarlet Fever
Disease Outbreaks

131. A brief account of the epidemical fever which lately prevailed in the city of New York: with the different proclamations, reports and letters of Gov. Jay, Gov. Mifflin, the Health Committee of New York, &c. upon the subject : to which is added, an accurate list of the names of those who have died of the disease, from July 29, to Nov. 1

Author(s):
Davis, Matthew L. (Matthew Livingston), 1773-1850
Publication:
New York : Printed and sold by Matthew L. Davis, no. 151 Water street, 1795
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
New York City

135. An inaugural dissertation, shewing in what manner pestilential vapours acquire their acid quality, and how this is neutralized and destroyed by alkalies: submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 2d day of May, 1798

Author(s):
Lent, Adolph C.
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. & J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 99 Pearl-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Alkalies
Disease Outbreaks

136. A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever: as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia ; exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful ; also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future

Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson ..., 1794
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Philadelphia

141. Memoirs of the yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia, and other parts of the United States of America, in the summer and autumn of the present year, 1798: including, tables of the weather, and the daily returns of the sick and dead ; the proceedings of the Board of Health, and Guardians of the Poor ; with the various events of each day, noted at the time of their occurrence ; and the publications which appeared in the different newspapers, during the continuance of the disease, dissections at Boston, &c. &c. ; to which is added, a collections of facts respecting the origin of the fever

Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by John Bioren for Thomas Dobson ..., 1798
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality
History, 18th Century
United States -- epidemiology

142. Shecut's Medical and philosophical essays: the whole of which are designed as illustrative of the domestic origin of the yellow fever of Charleston ; and, as conducing to the formation of a medical history of the state of South-Carolina

Author(s):
Shecut, John L. E. W. (John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge), 1770-1836
Publication:
Charleston [S.C.] : Printed for the author by A. E. Miller, 1819
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever -- etiology
Disease Outbreaks
Electric Stimulation Therapy
South Carolina -- epidemiology

143. A view of the diseases most prevalent in the United States of America: at different seasons of the year ; with an account of the most improved method of treating them ; being an abstact [sic] not only of the editor's own experience, but of the experience of several physicians ... residing in the different states ; including the substance of ... improvements that have been made in the treatment of similar diseases in other countries

Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published and sold by J. & A. Y. Humphreys ..., 1811
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Seasons
United States -- epidemiology

149. Medical inquiries and observations: containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794 ; together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever ; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no 41, South Second-Street, 1796
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Fever
Bloodletting
Philadelphia -- epidemiology

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