The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician.

  • Smith, James, 1771-1841.
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The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Letters of Humanitas

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Baltimore : [publisher not identified], February 9, 1801.

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48, 24 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1764
Shaw & Shoemaker 1332

Notes

"The editors of the Federal Gazette having omitted such parts of the following letters as were disagreeable to themselves - the present copy may be esteemed more accurate." - note (p. [2]) signed: J. S
Smith had published in the Federal gazette and Baltimore daily advertiser, Nov. 12-Dec. 5, 1800, a series of "letters signed 'Humanitas,' containing strictures on the Board of Health, with suggestions for its improvement." Cf. J. R. Quinan, Medical annals of Baltimore, Baltimore, 1884, p. 156
Polly Elliott was an orphan who had been refused admission to the Almshouse and soon after died of yellow fever
"Baltimore Alms House poor list, for 1800" (statistics): p. 43. "Obituary, for the year 1800 ... from the books of the Baltimore Alms House": p. 44-47
"Appendix" (communications concerning the yellow fever epidemic of 1800-1801): 24 p. at end
Includes typeset tables
Film 633 reel 88 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 88, no. 1764).

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1959. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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