An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BAYLEY, Richard

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An account of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the city of New York, during part of the summer and fall of 1795.

New York: T. and J. Swords, 1796.

Traces the spread of yellow fever in late July, 1795, to the ship Zephyr, recently arrived from the West Indies. After spreading to nearby ships and then into the neighborhoods surrounding the port, the epidemic killed nearly eight hundred people, and lingered until mid-October, afflicting a large portion of the city. Bayley also analyzes the potential causes of the disease in general, and discusses the various treatments that he used and witnessed being used around New York. 

Digital text from quod.lib.umich.edu at this link.



Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Yellow Fever, U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › New York