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pestilential, or yellow, fever, and other diseases which 

 have been confounded with it. 



The eighth is from Doctor David Hosack, of New- 

 York, to the same purpose as Doctor Bayley's. He 

 also relates the opinions of Doctor Ledyard, the late 

 health-officer, on the subject. 



The ninth is an extract from the Minutes of the 

 Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, in 1798, 

 showing the contagious nature of the fever in that 

 house. 



The tenth is a statement of facts, to prove the con- 

 tagious nature of the fever at Germantown, in 1798, 

 collected by Doctor Caspar Wistar, jun., Member of 

 the College, and Professor of Anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. 



The eleventh is from Doctor George Bensell, of 

 Germautown, corroborating Dr. Wistar's account, 

 and relating the general salubrity of Germantown. 



The twelfth and thirteenth are from Doctor Charles 

 Meredith, one of the physicians of the Philadelphia 

 Dispensary, giving an account of a case of the fe- 

 ver, which was received at Philadelphia, in the au- 

 tumn of 1798, and proved contagious and mortal near 

 Doyles-town, in Pennsylvania. He further states the 

 healthy situation of that part of the country. 



The fourteenth is from Doctor John Wilson, of 



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