An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania.

Title: An account of the bilious remitting yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania.

Author: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.

Collection: Evans Early American Imprint Collection

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now began to affect me in small and infect|ed rooms, in the most sensible manner. On the morning of the 4th of October I suddenly sunk down in a sick room upon a bed, with a giddiness in my head. It continued for a few minutes, and was succeeded by a fever which confined me to my house the remaining part of the day.Every moment in the intervals of my visits to the sick, was employed in prescribing in my own house for the poor, or in sending answers to mes|sages from my patients; time was now too pre|cious to be spent in counting the number of per|sons who called upon me for advice. From cir|cumstances, I believe it was frequently 150, and seldom less than 50 in a day, for five or six weeks. The evening did not bring with it the least relax|ation from my labours. I received letters every day from the country, and from distant parts of the Union, containing inquiries into the mode of treating the disorder, and after the health and lives of persons who had remained in the city. The business of every evening was to answer these letters, also to write to my family. These em|ployments by affording a fresh current to my thoughts, kept me from dwelling on the gloomy scenes of the day. After these duties were per|formed, I copied into my note book all the obser|vations 0