Benjamin Rush (Philadelphia) letter to Julia Stockton Rush (Princeton [N.J.]), 1793 September 6-7

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 16

Creator:

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Extent:

1 Leaf

Physical description:

3 pages; 33 cm

Scope and content:

Rush notes that his cure is working, but there is a pause in new cases, and that fatalities are now among the poor without access to doctors or respectable people being treated by quacks. He states that if the fever breaks out in Princeton, he will send his assistant John Cox to execute his cure. Once again he documents the health status of his fellow physicians, although he records a rumor that some doctors have ceased seeing patients at all. He then discusses the various treatments that have been used for the fever. In a postscript, he adds that Africans in the city have proven immune to the disease.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Josiah Charles Trent Collection, 1956

Subjects:

Yellow fever -- 18th century
Yellow Fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Yellow Fever -- Epidemiology -- Pennsylvania
Yellow fever -- Treatment
Yellow Fever -- therapy

Names:

Rush, Julia Stockton

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