ADDRESS
TO THE
INHABITANTS OF THE CITY AND LIBERTIES
OF
PHILADELPHIA. 
Beloved Fellow Citizens,
AN anxious desire for your preservation,
in this time of general alarm, has induced me to
present you with the following advice. - When you
are assured that it is offered by one who has had a
large share of experience in the fever of ninety-
three as well as in the present calamity, you will
not I hope be unwilling to listen to the truth, be-
cause the name of the author is concealed.
In the first place, I wish you to pay attention to
the following rules, to avoid taking the fever, 
they are generally allowed to be safe and effectual.
Be very temperate in your diet, Do not over-heat
nor fatigue yourselves by any kind of exercise ; Be
not exposed to the sun nor to the night air ; Be very
cleanly in your houses and persons ; Keep the body lax-
ative by small doses of cream of tartar, glauber's salts,
or castor oil; and by a free use of ripe fruit, with which
a kind providence hath, at this time, so plentifully
supplied us. But above all things endeavour to keep
your spirits calm and even. A due observation of these
rules will do much, with the divine blessing, in pre-
serving you from the fever; and if you should even be
taken with it, the disease will be lighter. Indeed the
remedies now generally used have proved so effectual,
that if the sick are placed in airy rooms, are well nursed,
and have proper medical assistance, this fever is not
more dangerous than many others.
Although it is cruel to desert a sick person yet it
will be well not to have any unnecessary intercourse
with the sick.
Secondly - I would recommend the following rules
to be observed by those who are taken ill with the
fever :
If you are seized with a chilliness or making, fol-
lowed by a fever, bad head-ach, pain in the back
and loins, sick stomach or vomiting, uneasiness a-
bout the breast, soreness of the eyes or pain in them,
immediately get bled; and take one of the powders
of jalap and calomel, so successfully used in 1793 -
They may be had at the apothecaries with proper
directions for using them. - Drink very freely of mo-
lases and water, or tamarinds and water. If this
method does not carry off the disease, which it often
does in a short time, send for a physician.
The chamber windows of the sick should be
always kept open, the bed clothes and other linen
often changed; the face, hands, and arms of the
sick must be frequently washed with water or
vinegar. The mixture of oil of vitriol and salt-
petre, recommended by the College of Physicians,
and prepared, with proper directions, by the apothe-
caries, should be constantly used.
If you cannot get a physician, the best general
rule is.
For the first three or four days, while the fever
continues high, be bled once or twice a day, and take
one dose of the above mentioned powder of jalap
and calomel, every day - when the fever abates a 
little, take a dose of glauber's salts, castor oil or
rhubarb, every day, until the seventh or eighth
day.
If the sickness at stomach continues, put blisters to
the wrists.
For the first three or four days, drink molasses
water, tamarinds and waters, cream of tartar and
water, or toast and water. Afterwards use thin fago,
tapioca or barley water and eat ripe peaches or grapes.
Use no wine till the fever is gone. Then take cho-
colate, tea, and weak broth for nourishment, and cool
chamomile tea to strengthen the stomach. The sick
should keep as quiet as possible taking care to make
no unnecessary exertions for these have often proved
to be extremely dangerous by bringing on faintings,
and convulsions - for some time after recovery, the
sick must be very cautious in their diet and exercise,
to prevent a relapse.
When a sick person gets well, expose their bed to
the rain, or let it be well washed by throwing cold
water on it - this will not injure the feathers:- But
do hot put the bed in the sun, nor in such a situation
as to injure a neighbour - wash all the cloaths, in
cold water - the walls of the sick room should be im-
mediately white washed, the floors and doors well
washed - and the windows kept constantly open.
This advice is offered you from an earned solici-
tude for your good - it is a plain account of the me-
thods generally allowed, by the physicians, to be
most beneficial and if you will but assist them by your
endeavours to be calm and tranquil, I have no doubt
but they will, with the blessing of God, be found
highly salutary and effectual for the preservation of
your health. 
A FRIEND TO MANKIND. 
Philadelphia September 6th, 1797.