Meditations written during the prevalence of the yellow fever in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1793
Subtitle: which proved fatal to upwards of 4000 of its inhabitants
By: by Joshua Cresson
Contributors: Cresson, Mary; Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 10105
Publisher: Phillips
Published: 1803
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Notes: Prefatory note attributed to William Dillwyn

"To these Meditations (found after his decease) the writer does not appear to have made any addition: on third day, the 15th, he was himself attacked by the prevalent disease, and died on the 21st."--P. 20

Memoir by author's widow, signed Mary Cresson, Philadelphia, the 27th of the 3d month, 1794. (p. 21-23)

Sabin 17484

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1992. 1 microfiche : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 10105)