Memoirs of the Yellow Fever

Currie, William, 1754-1828. Memoirs of the yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia, and other parts of the United States of America, in the summer and autumn of the present year, 1798. Including, tables of the weather, and the daily returns of the sick, and dead; the proceedings of the Board of Health, and Guardians of the Poor. With the various events of each day, noted at the time of their occurrence; and the publications which appeared in the different newspapers, during the continuance of the disease, dissections at Boston, &c. &c. To which is added, a collection of facts respecting the origin of the fever... Philadelphia: Printed by John Bioren, for Thomas Dobson... 1798. [2], 145 p.; 21 cm. (8vo) Described by Bartlett as "a kind of desultory diary of the yellow-fever visitation of 1798" (#37, p. 570), the Memoirs provides a daily chronology of the epidemic drawn from Curries own recollections and a variety of published and manuscript sources.

Philadelphia Printed by John Bioren for Thomas Dobson

From Catalog I

A daily chronicle of the 1798 epidemic -- tables of weather, returns of the sick and dead, newspaper accounts, Board of Health proceedings -- that is simultaneously a medical diary, a public health record, and a press archive. Currie notes that his views have evolved since 1793. The willingness to acknowledge intellectual development distinguishes him from Rush; the willingness to publish those acknowledgments may explain why history has treated him less well.