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nued to go on? Or, why was it not imported, into 

 those two cities, from abroad, while we had the disor- 

 der among us ? It is, therefore, impossible to be ac- 

 counted for, with any shadow of probability, upon the 

 ground of the disease being importable. 



I cannot help here remarking, that it appears to me 

 a striking circumstance, that the College of Physicians 

 of Philadelphia should contend, that yellow-fever can 

 be imported ; and yet, at the same time, recommend, 

 in the strongest terms, all the means of prevention 

 from domestic sources, as are advised by the Acade- 

 my of Medicine, who are of a different opinion. For, 

 if it be an imported disease, I should suppose there 

 would be little reason to apprehend that any bad con- 

 sequences could result from domestic origin. On 

 the contrary, if yellow-fever should be certainly of do- 

 mestic origin, as scarcely one physician in this city 

 now doubts, all quarantine laws respecting it must be 

 nugatory. 



With respect to the contagious nature of yellow- fever, 

 so far as it has occurred in this city, there is no in- . 

 stance, which can be cited, to induce the smallest sus- 

 picion thereof. It appears, that not only Europeans 

 and strangers* from the different states, who visit our 

 eity, take the disease and die, without communicat- 



* Among strangers, I comprehend children, under two or 

 three years of age, whose systems have not been assimilated to 

 the state of tlie atmosphere of our city. Several such have died, 

 with symptoms of black vomit. Some few negroes (particu- 

 larly from the conntpy) have had the same symptoms. 



