[Medicine - Yellow Fever] 2 Books by William Currie on Yellow Fever, 1794; 1800 - Philadelphia

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  Currie, William. A TREATISE ON THE SYNOCHUS ICTEROIDES, OR YELLOW FEVER; as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia. : Exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful : also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, No. 41, South Second-Street, 1794. 8 1/4 by 5 inches in modern brown library buckram. First Edition. 85 pp. AUSTIN 607. 

  With: 

  Currie, William. A SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE YELLOW FEVER, AND OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR 1799:  to which is added, a collection of facts and observations respecting the origin of the yellow fever in this country; and a review of the different modes of treating it. Philadelphia: Printed by Budd and Bartram, No 58, North Second Street, 1800. 9 by 5 1/2 inches, string sewn, no cover wrappers. 

  From the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program:

  "The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital, was the most cosmopolitan city in the United States. Two thousand free blacks lived there, as well as many recent white French-speaking arrivals from the colony of Santo Domingo, who were fleeing from a slave rebellion. Major Revolutionary political figures lived there, and in the first week of September, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison that everyone who could escape the city was doing so. The epidemic depopulated Philadelphia: 5,000 out of a population of 45,000 died, and chronicler Matthew Carey estimated that another 17,000 fled."

  Condition

  The 1794 title is ex-library but with only one internal mark, a number stamped to the final blank page -- in a modern brown buckram binding which does have library indicia to the the pastedowns. The 1800 title lacks any printed wrapper covers and is toned and internally stained and foxed but otherwise complete and in Good condition. 
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