List of Illustrations
Introduction to the 1993 Edition
Preface to the 1949 Edition
Acknowledgments
''A Merry, Sinful Summer''
Infection in Water Street
Fever, Domestic and Foreign
Prevention, Personal and Civic
Crisis
Panic
"This Excellent Physician"
Bush Hill
The Committee
"Sangrado"
The Fugitives
Height of the Plague October
Frost
Afterwards
Notes
Index
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.
"A brilliant and model treatment of one of the most macabre
incidents in American History."—New York Herald Tribune
"A brilliant case study of the visitation of the scourge in Penn's
city."—American Historical Review
"A fascinating history of Philadelphia's great plague. Historian
Powell's conscientious grubbing among the records pays off with a
cumulative effect of horror and heroism seldom found in the most
artful fiction."—Time
"Unique in its weaving of the timeless aspects of human behavior
with an authentic account of a major epidemic in American and
medical history, this book is carefully researched and a very good
read."—Nursing History Review
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