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Bring Out Your Dead
The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
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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.
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“A.B.”
Abington, Pa.
Abolition Society
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, Thomas Boylston
Adgate, Andrew, vii
African Methodist Episcopal Church of North America
African School
African Society, The Free
Air, theories concerning
Aitken, Robert
Albany, N. Y.
Alberti, Dr. George F.
Ale, Sebastian
Alexandria, Va.
Allen, Richard
Almshouse (city)
Almshouse, Friends. See Friends’ Almshouse
Alston, John
Amelia, sloop
“Amen”
American Philosophical Society
Anderson’s Pills
André, John
Annan, Rev. Robert
Annan, Dr. Williams
Annapolis, Md.
“Argus”
“Aroteus, Jr.” (Charles Caldwell)
Assistant Committee
Aston, Peter
Augusta, Ga.
Autumnal fevers
Bache, Benjamin Franklin
Bache, William
Bailey, J.
Baker, Hilary
Ball, Joseph
Baltimore, Md.
Bank of North America
Bank of Pennsylvania
Barbados distemper
Barclay, John
Bard, Samuel
Barnwell, William
Barry, John
Barton, Dr. Benjamin Smith
Bass, Sarah
Bayard, Dr. John
Baynton, Peter, and family
Baynton, Sylvanus
Beaubrum, Joseph
Belknap, Jeremy
Belleville, Dr.
Ben (Dr. Rush’s coachman)
“Benevolus”
Benezet, Anthony
Benge, Samuel
Benjamin, Dolly
Berks County, Pa.
Bethal family
Bethlehem, Pa.
Biddle, Charles
Biddle, Judge James
Blackwell, Rev. Robert
Blanchard, François
Blane on fevers
Bleakley, John
Blight’s countinghouse
Bloodletting, Rush’s use of
Boerhaave, Herman
Boggs, Mrs.
Boissiere, Tanguy de la
Boldenger, Prof.
Bond, Phineas
Bond, Dr. Thomas
Bordentown, N. J.
Bordley, Beale
Boston, Mass.
Boudinot, Elias
Bournonville, Secretary
Boyles, Thomas
Bradford, Thomas
Bradford, Mrs. Thomas
Bradford, Judge William
Breck, Samuel
Bridgeton, N. J.
Bristol, Pa.
Brooks, Mr.
Brown, Andrew
Brown, Charles Brockden
Brown, John
Brown, Martin
Bucks County, Pa.
Burlington, N. J.
Burr, Aaron
Burrows, Capt.
Bush Hill
“By-Stander”
Calbraith, James, & Co.
Caldwell, Charles
Camp fever
Carey, Mathew
Carlyle, Alexander
Carroll, Bishop John
Carson, Dr. John
Cathrall, Dr. Isaac
Cemeteries
Chambard, “Dr.”
Charleston, S. C.
Chester, Pa.
Chester County, Pa.
Chestertown, Md.
Chevôt, “the late Dr.”
Chew family
Childs & S...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to the 1993 Edition
- Preface to the 1949 Edition
- Acknowledgments
- “A Merry, Sinful Summer”
- Infection in Water Street
- Fever, Domestic and Foreign
- Prevention, Personal and Civic
- Crisis
- Panic
- “This Excellent Physician”
- Bush Hill
- The Committee
- “Sangrado”
- The Fugitives
- Height of the Plague
- Frost
- Afterwards
- Notes
- Index