A statement of the occurrences during a malignant yellow fever in the city of New-York, in the summer and autumnal months of 1819: and of the check given to its progress, by the measures adopted by the Board of Health : with a list of cases and names of sick persons, and a map of their places of residence within the infected and proscribed limits : with a view of ascertaining, by comparative arguments, whether the distemper was engendered by domestic causes, or communicated by human contagion from foreign ports

A statement of the occurrences during a malignant yellow fever in the city of New-York, in the summer and autumnal months of 1819: and of the check given to its progress, by the measures adopted by the Board of Health : with a list of cases and names of sick persons, and a map of their places of residence within the infected and proscribed limits : with a view of ascertaining, by comparative arguments, whether the distemper was engendered by domestic causes, or communicated by human contagion from foreign ports

Collection:
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920
Author(s):
Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, 1762-1833
Contributor(s):
Mercein, William A., -1850, printer
Publication:
New-York : Printed by William A. Mercein ..., 1819
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Epidemics
New York City
Genre(s):
Case Reports
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain (More information)
Exhibition:
exhibited: "Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton's America," HMD Reading Room, National Library of Medicine, January 11, 2019 - May 22, 2019.
Extent:
52 p., [1] leaf of plates (fold.)
Illustrations:
Maps and Plates
NLM Unique ID:
2566039R (See catalog record)
OCLC no.:
14822889
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2566039R