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(YELLOW FEVER) Coates, Samuel. Autograph Letter Signed, to Newburyport merchant Moses Brown, discussing his treatment for Yellow Fever. 3 pages, plus an additional one-page postscript signed, folded 4to sheet and a single 4to sheet; usual folds, minor stain from seal and small hole from opening. Philadelphia, 4 December 1798
An interesting letter from Coates (1748-1830), a Philadelphia merchant and benefactor and administrator of Pennsylvania Hospital. He begins by discussing the depressed market for rum due to the outbreak of Yellow Fever and the shipment of iron to Brown, but apparently breaks off after falling ill. He resumes on the second page saying "I have never been well since my last" and describes his treatment: " . . . my two Doctors tho't there was a tendency of inflamation to the Brain, and to conquer what they considered an almost unsuferable dullness about me and confusion of ideas, arising from debility after the fever, they took to moderate bleeding, plenty of Physicing and blistering of my legs--to those two blisters chiefly, I trust I am to impute my present recovery . . . One of them has been open and continually discharging for eleven days . . ."
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