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An Medical Inquiries and Observations (Notable American Authors)
An Medical Inquiries and Observations - Notable American Authors Author:Benjamin Rush Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: died. died.Broughtforward3122Brought forward3709October1780October 2917 18593016 19653121 2055November 113 2159221 2282315 23544IS 2438514 2535611 2623715 271... more »388 282496 3709Total3881From this table it appears that the principal mortality was in the second week of October. A general expectation had obtained, that cold weather was as fatal to this fever as heavy rains. The usual time for its arrival had come, but the weather was still not only moderate, but warm. In this awful situation, the stoutest hearts began to fail. Hope sickened, and despair succeeded distress in almost every countenance. On the fifteenth of October, it pleased God to alter the state of the air.The clouds at last dropped health in showers of rain, which continued during the whole day, and which were succeeded for several nights afterwards by cold and frost. The effects of this change in the weather appeared first in the sudden diminution of the sick, for the deaths continued for a week afterwards to be numerous, but they were of per. sons who had been confined before, or on the day in which the change had taken place in the weather. In the above accounts there is a deficiency f returns from several grave-yards of 163. The appearance of this rain was like a dove with an olive branch in its mouth to the whole city. Public notice was given of its beneficial effects, in a letter subscribed by the mayor of Philadelphia, who acted as president of the committee, to the mayor of New-York. I shall insert the whole of this letter. It contains, besides the above information, a record of the liberality of that city to the distressed inhabitants of Philadelphia. " Sir, " I am favoured with your letter of the 12th instant, which I have communicated to the committee for the relief of the poor and afflicted ...« less