Timothy Pickering (Philadelphia) letter to Benjamin Rush (n. p.), 1799 September 23

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 14

Creator:

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Extent:

3 Leaves

Scope and content:

Pickering notes that he sent Yellow Fever medicine developed by Dr. Conrad G. Bölke to the Board of Health, but is only now sending along copies of his letters from Bölke and the United States consul at Hamburg, Joseph Pitcairn, with instructions regarding the medicine's use.

Acquisition information:

Gift of Josiah Charles Trent Collection, 1956

Physical description:

6 pages; 25 cm

Subjects:

Yellow fever -- Treatment
Yellow Fever -- therapy
Yellow fever -- 18th century
Yellow Fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Yellow Fever -- Epidemiology -- Pennsylvania

Names:

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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