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37. Pennsylvania, ss. In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Thomas Mifflin, governor of the said commonwealth, a proclamation: whereas I have heretofore issued a proclamation, bearing date of the 29th day of June last, thereby declaring and establishing a quarantine to be performed by all vessels arriving in this port from any of the West-India Islands, from New-Orleans, or from any Dutch, French or Spanish port, on the Main ... Hereby publicly notifying, that, during the continuance of said quarantine, all vessels suspected of infection shall anchor under the guns of the fort on Mud-Island ...Given under my hand and the great seal o- [sic] the state, at Philadelphia, the twentieth day July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six

Author(s):
Pennsylvania. Governor (1790-1799 : Mifflin)
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1796]
Subject(s):
Quarantine -- legislation & jurisprudence
Pennsylvania

38. Dr. Leib's patriotic speech, addressed to the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, February 24, 1796: throwing light on the most important proceedings of the federal government ; touching on the treaty with Great Britain ; and many other subjects, which materially concern every true friend to his country

Author(s):
Leib, Michael, 1761-1822
Publication:
New-London [Conn.] : Printed by James Springer, opposite the market ..., 1796
Subject(s):
Politics
International Cooperation
History, 18th Century
United States
United Kingdom

39. Medical inquiries and observations: containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794 ; together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever ; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no 41, South Second-Street, 1796
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Fever
Bloodletting
Philadelphia -- epidemiology