Bring Out Your Dead,9780812214239

Bring Out Your Dead

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780812214239
ISBN10: 0812214234
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Summary

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 Deadis an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.

Author Biography

John Harvey Powell (1914-1971) graduated from Swarthmore College and earned his Ph.D. degree in American History at the University of Iowa. Kenneth R. Foster is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Mary F. Jenkins is a Supervisory Park Ranger and Supervisor of the Dolley Todd Madison House and Visitor Center at Independence National Historical Park. Anna Coxe Toogood is Park Historian at Independence National Historical Park.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Introduction to the 1993 Edition ix
Preface to the 1949 Edition xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
``A Merry, Sinful Summer''
1(7)
Infection in Water Street
8(21)
Fever, Domestic and Foreign
29(16)
Prevention, Personal and Civic
45(19)
Crisis
64(26)
Panic
90(24)
``This Excellent Physician''
114(26)
Bush Hill
140(33)
The Committee
173(22)
``Sangrado''
195(21)
The Fugitives
216(17)
Height of the Plague
233(27)
Frost
260(20)
Afterwards 280(7)
Notes 287(8)
Index 295

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