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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Letters from Philadelphia report lessened fears of yellow fever spreading in 1799, with one bank relocated from the city. A July 6 letter from William Meredith confirms no new outbreak, attributing alarms to imagination rather than actual disease.
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Extract of letter from Will'm Meredith, Esq. dated Philadelphia, July 6, 1799 to a gentleman in Boston.
"We have been in alarm some days past.—It was reported the fever had again appeared. Happily, on strict enquiry, the report is found void of foundation."
Upon strict scrutiny, it appears has experienced nothing more than a few instances of the common bilious fever, and what is much worse, the fever of alarm. We do not pretend to say, the fear of a disorder will absolutely produce it: But certain it is, the wonderful powers of the imagination have much to do in the destroying, as well as in the healing art. Nothing tends more to health and happiness, than the habit of confining the mind, and of course the conversation, to agreeable subjects. It would be very fortunate, if the name and thoughts of the Yellow-Fever, were not admitted as the gloomy precursors of the anticipated reality.
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Philadelphia
Event Date
July 6, 1799
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no actual yellow fever outbreak; only alarms and common bilious fever cases; one bank removed from the city.
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Reports from Philadelphia indicate reduced fears of yellow fever spreading. A letter from William Meredith states recent alarms were unfounded upon inquiry, attributing issues to imagination and common bilious fever rather than a true epidemic.