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Book Short History of the Yellow Fever  That Broke Out in the City of Philadelphia  in July 1797

Download or read book Short History of the Yellow Fever That Broke Out in the City of Philadelphia in July 1797 written by Richard Folwell and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bring Out Your Dead

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. H. Powell
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014-06-10
  • ISBN : 0812291174
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Bring Out Your Dead written by J. H. Powell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.

Book Proofs of the origin of the yellow fever  in Philadelphia   Kensington in     1797 from domestic exhalation  etc  in two letter  etc

Download or read book Proofs of the origin of the yellow fever in Philadelphia Kensington in 1797 from domestic exhalation etc in two letter etc written by Academy of Medicine (PHILADELPHIA) and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Contagious City

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  • Author : Simon Finger
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2012-05-15
  • ISBN : 0801464005
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Contagious City written by Simon Finger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine. Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city's history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city's planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city's history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city's location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America.

Book Public Health Service Publication

Download or read book Public Health Service Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States

Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Index catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General s Office United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon general s Office  United States Army

Download or read book Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon general s Office United States Army written by Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early American Medical Imprints 1668 1820

Download or read book Early American Medical Imprints 1668 1820 written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of  a      Medical and Scientific Library

Download or read book Catalogue of a Medical and Scientific Library written by René La Roche and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ship of Death

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  • Author : Billy G. Smith
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-19
  • ISBN : 0300194528
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Ship of Death written by Billy G. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemic

Book Early American Scientific and Technical Literature

Download or read book Early American Scientific and Technical Literature written by Margaret Batschelet and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...useful to researchers in the history of science and in early American history." --ARBA

Book The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

Download or read book The Papers of Alexander Hamilton written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.

Book Warner Mifflin

Download or read book Warner Mifflin written by Gary B. Nash and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying the peace testimony to Generals Howe and Washington across the blood-soaked Germantown battlefield and traveling several thousand miles by horse up and down the Atlantic seaboard to stiffen the spines of the beleaguered Quakers, harried and exiled for their neutrality during the war for independence. Mifflin was also a pioneer of slave reparations, championing the radical idea that after their liberation, Africans in America were entitled to cash payments and land or shared crop arrangements. Preaching "restitution," Mifflin led the way in making Kent County, Delaware, a center of reparationist doctrine. After the war, Mifflin became the premier legislative lobbyist of his generation, introducing methods of reaching state and national legislators to promote antislavery action. Detesting his repeated exercise of the right of petition and hating his argument that an all-seeing and affronted God would punish Americans for "national sins," many Southerners believed Mifflin was the most dangerous man in America—"a meddling fanatic" who stirred the embers of sectionalism after the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. Yet he inspired those who believed that the United States had betrayed its founding principles of natural and inalienable rights by allowing the cancer of slavery and the dispossession of Indian lands to continue in the 1790s. Writing in beautiful prose and marshaling fascinating evidence, Gary B. Nash constructs a convincing case that Mifflin belongs in the Quaker antislavery pantheon with William Southeby, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet.

Book Writings of Warner Mifflin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warner Mifflin
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-21
  • ISBN : 1644531860
  • Pages : 613 pages

Download or read book Writings of Warner Mifflin written by Warner Mifflin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Writings of Warner Mifflin: Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era Gary B. Nash and Michael R. McDowell present the correspondence, petitions and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the U.S. abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency. Virtually unknown to Americans—schoolbooks ignore him, academic historians barely nod at him; the public knows him not at all--Mifflin has been brought to life in Gary B. Nash’s recent biography, Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist (2017). This volume provides an array of insights into the mind of a conscience-bound pacifist Quaker who became instrumental in making Kent County, Delaware a bastion of free blacks liberated from slavery and a seedbed of a reparationist doctrine that insisted that enslavers owed “restitution” to manumitted Africans and their descendants. Mifflin's writings also show how he became the most skilled lobbyist of the antislavery campaigners who haunted the legislative chambers of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania as well as the halls of the Continental Congress and the First and Second Federal Congresses. An opening introduction and introductions to each of the five chronologically arranged parts of the book provide context for the documents and a narrative of the life of this remarkable American.