A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. : To which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793 - ECU Libraries Catalog

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A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. : To which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793. / By Mathew Carey.

Author/creator	Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Other author/creator	Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796.
Other author/creator	American Philosophical Society dedicatee.
Format	Electronic and Book
Edition	Fourth edition, improved.
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Printed by the author, January 16, 1794.
Description	vii, 2 unnumbered pages, 10-164 pages ; 23 cm (8vo)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Yellow fever--Pennsylvania --Philadelphia. Plague--England --London. Plague--France --Marseille.

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Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26735. ^A478749
General note	Also issued as the first title in: Select pamphlets respecting the yellow fever ... Philadelphia : Mathew Carey, [1799] (Evans 36287).
General note	Several states noted. Evans 26735 records states of 112 p. (incomplete?; no copy located), 159 p. (Austin 412), and 160 p. (Austin 411). Evans 26736 records a state with 164 p. and no comma after the word "subject" in the title (Austin 413). Evans 26737 records a state with [2], 164 p., printed wrappers, and a comma after the word "subject". Austin 414, which may describe this last state, records the comma, but does not mention the [2] preliminary pages, and reports "without the printed wrappers mentioned by Evans."
General note	Blue printed wrappers.
General note	Statistics gathered in Philadelphia, August to November, 1793, including meteorological observations compiled by David Rittenhouse, p. [113-120].
References	Evans 26735
References	Evans 26736
References	Evans 26737
References	Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 411
References	Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 412
References	Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 413
References	Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 414
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26735).
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26736).
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26737).

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