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Excerpt from A Semi-Annual Oration, on the Origin of Pestilential Diseases: Delivered Before the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia, on the 17th Day of December, 1798
I. I do not believe that, either, in the years ninety three; ninety feven, or ninety eight, the American pellilence was exclufively of domeltic origin. I am perfuaded that, on each of thofe occafions, a very powerful caufe of this dif cafe, was introduced into Philadelphia, through the channel of commerce. I do not, however, with fome phylicians, conceive, that this caufe was introduced in the form of buman contagion, generated in the difeafed bodies of men, but in that of foul air, refnlting from the putrid ballall, or damaged cargoes of veilels. Nor have I, on enquiry, found reafon to believe, that there exifts, on record, a lingle well authenticated inflance, of the difeafe in quellion, having.
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