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Benjamin Rush
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia
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Politics of yellow fever in Alexander Hamilton's America | NLM.
An exhibit from the National Library of Medicine. "Doctors, politicians, and the people of Philadelphia used the 1793 yellow fever epidemic to advance their respective agendas. Explore how different groups of people responded to the crisis."
Philadelphia Reflections: Germantown Nurses the Yellow Fever, 1793
Philadelphia Center for the Book: Philadelphia Under Siege: The Yellow Fever of 1793. By Samuel A. Gum, Summer 2010
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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-lett
by
Rush, Benjamin
Publication Date: 1796
A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 : and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications
by
Jones, Absalom, et al
Publication Date: 1794
Articles
North, R. L. (2000). Benjamin Rush, MD: Assassin or beloved healer? Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 13(1), 45-49. doi:10.1080/08998280.2000.11927641
Kopperman, P. E. (2004). "Venerate the lancet": Benjamin Rush's yellow fever therapy in context. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 78(3), 539-74
Clark, R. B. (2008). Bleedings, purges, and vomits: Dr. Benjamin Rush's republican medicine, the bilious remitting yellow-fever epidemic of 1793, and the non-origin of the law of informed consent. The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, 24(2),
Eisenberg, L. (2007). Furor therapeuticus: Benjamin Rush and the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164(4), 552-555. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.164.4.552
Books
Bring Out Your Dead
by
J. H. Powell; Kenneth R. Foster (Introduction by); Anna Coxe Toogood (Introduction by); Mary F. Jenkins (Introduction by)
Call Number: RC211.P5 P6 1949 3rd FLOOR MEZZANINE (earlier edition)
ISBN: 9780812214239
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
A Melancholy Scene of Devastation
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J. Worth Estes; Billy G. Smith
Call Number: RC211.P5 M44 1997, 3rd FLOOR MEZZANINE
ISBN: 9780881351927
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Chapter: New Nation, page 63
by
Elaine G. Breslaw
ISBN: 9780814739389
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds
by
Thomas Apel
ISBN: 9780804797405
Publication Date: 2016-03-30
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