A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic by Estes, J. Worth and Billy G. Smith - 1997

Canton, Massachusetts: Science History Publications, 1997. Hardcover. VG- ex-museum library copy with stamps. lacks dust jacket.. Black boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. xii, 211 pp. BW and 1 color illustration. Introduction : the yellow fever syndrome and its treatment in Philadelphia, 1793 / J. Worth Estes -- Readership as citizenship in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia / David Paul Nord -- "Total dissolution of the bonds of society" : community death and regeneration in Mathew Carey's Short account of the malignant fever / Sally F. Griffith -- "Abigail, a Negress" : the role and the legacy of African Americans in the yellow fever epidemic / Philip Lapsansky -- Passions and politics : the multiple meanings of Benjamin Rush's treatment for yellow fever / Jacquelyn C. Miller -- Beyond therapeutics : technology and the question of public health in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Michal McMahon -- Politics, parties, and pestilence : epidemic yellow fever in Philadelphia and the rise of the first party system / Martin S. Pernick -- Comment : disease and community / Billy G. Smith -- Appendix I: "how many precious souls are fled?" : the magnitude of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic / Susan E. Klepp -- Appendix II: yellow fever since 1793 : history and historiography / Margaret Humphreys.