The awful malignant fever at Newburyport, in the year 1796
Subtitle: An elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty persons ... Together with a short account of that alarming disorder---
By: By Jonathan Plummer, Jun
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 31018
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Newburyport, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Epidemics; Yellow fever; History; Medical Statistics
Other titles: Elegiac epistle to the mourners, on the death of forty persons.; Daughters of Eve and sons of men.
Notes: Elegiac epistle, first line: Daughters of Eve and sons of men.

Includes also List of those who died, and four additional stanzas of verse entitled, Invitation to the inhabitants of Newburyport who have fled to the country, on account of the malignant fever.

Dated: Newburyport, October 6, 1796.

With fory-four coffins in two rows in midst of title.

Text in four columns; printed area measures 51.8 x 37.7 cm.

Evans 31018

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2793

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1548