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Spread from A Time of Youth, 1969

Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian

De Europische Insecten. Tot Amsterdam: by J.F. Bernard, [1730].

Malignant Fever Quote

Benjamin Rush to Julia Rush. August 21, 1793.
Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush Papers
Gift of Josiah Charles Trent and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans

So many physicians and others were writing to him for advice that Rush published his cure and the directions for both curing and preventing the disease in the Federal Gazette newspaper.
Federal Gazette, September 12, 1793
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Doctor Rush’s Mercurial Sweating Purge

Federal Gazette
September 14, 1793
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Image of Jalap Plant

Jalap, a dried plant root from the morning glory family that acts as a purgative, was a key component of Rush’s treatment for yellow fever.
Köhler, Fr. Eugen.
Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte : Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, Neerlandica, British pharmacopoeia, zum Codex medicamentarius… V. 2
Gera-Untermhaus : Fr. Eugen Köhler, 1890.
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Benjamin Rush to Julia Rush. August 29, 1793

In this letter, Rush provides a detailed description of the fever’s symptoms.
Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush Papers
Gift of Josiah Charles Trent and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Image of the tongue during different stages of Yellow Fever

Tongues, Plate V
Pariset, Etienne.
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 / par Pariset et Mazet.
Paris: Audot, 1820
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Image of patient in final stages of Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever Patient, Plate IV
Pariset, Etienne.
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 / par Pariset et Mazet.
Paris: Audot, 1820
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Image of patient in stage two of symptoms of Yellow Fever.

Yellow Fever Patient, Plate III
Pariset, Etienne.
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 / par Pariset et Mazet.
Paris: Audot, 1820
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Image of patient with early symptoms of Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever Patient, Plate II
Pariset, Etienne.
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 / par Pariset et Mazet.
Paris: Audot, 1820
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Image of patient before yellow fever symptoms begin.

Yellow Fever Patient, Plate I
Pariset, Etienne.
Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 / par Pariset et Mazet.
Paris: Audot, 1820
Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Benjamin Rush Engraving

Dodson, R.W. engraving from a Painting by T. Sully.
Benjamin Rush, M.D.
History of Medicine picture file, 1523-2002 and undated, box 8.
Rubenstein Library
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Benjamin Rush to Julia Rush. August 25, 1793

Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush Papers
Gift of Josiah Charles Trent and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
Rubenstein Library
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Image of Mosquito, 1872

Woodward, Joseph Janvier
Letter to the Surgeon General of the Army accompanying seven photographs of some of the external appearances of the mosquito.
[Washington, D.C.] : Army Medical Museum, 1872.
History of Medicine Collection

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee, Appendix

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee, Appointed on the 14th September, 1793, by the Citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and the District of Southwark, to attend to and alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted with The Malignant Fever, Prevalent, in the city and its vicinity, with an Appendix.
Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken & Son. 1794
History of Medicine Collection, Rubenstein Library
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

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