| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1793/07/00 | The first major American yellow fever epidemic arrives in Philadelphia. Dr Rush believes the outbreak began in a mound of coffee beans rotting on the a dock. | Old City, Philly, |
| 1793/07/28 | After a short, but server illness, Mary Long Tobias, wife of Tobias Lear, dies of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia. | |
| 1793/07/29 | Mary Long Tobias, wife of Tobias Lear, is buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. | Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1793/07/29 | George Washington attends as Mary Long Tobias, wife of Tobias Lear, is buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. | Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1793/08/00 | Benjamin Rush treats his patients with "heroic medicine", including copiously bleeding and large quantities of mercury. | |
| 1793/08/00 | Dr Philip Syng Physick stays in the Philadelphia to treat the sick during the yellow fever epidemic | |
| 1793/08/00 | Bishop White sends his family to their home on Old Mill Ln to avoid Yellow Fever, but he himself stays in Philadelphia to minister to the suffering. | Rose Valley Historic District, Rose Valley |
| 1793/09/00 | The Free African Society form a paramedical staff which will save 200-300 lives during the yellow fever epidemic. Answering Dr Rush's plea for help, the Society provided all medical and health services from nursing the sick to burial of the dead. | Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1793/09/20 | Dr Rush believes the body should rid itself of excess bile causing the disease: I now added gamboge to the calomel. Two grains and an half of each made into a pill, were given to an adult every six hours until they procured four or five stools. - BR | |
| 1793/09/29 | Samuel Powel dies of Yellow Fever. He is interred at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia | Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1793/10/14 | Dolley Todd loses her husband, John Todd, and her infant son, William Temple Todd, to Yellow Fever | |
| 1793/11/16 | President Washington avoids the President's house in central Philadelphia and takes shelter in Isaac Franks' house during the yellow fever epidemic, November 16 to 30. | Germantown 'White House', Philadelphia, PA |
| 1793/11/30 | Washington meets with his cabinet (Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph) in Isaac Franks' house four times between November 16 and 30, 1793. | Germantown 'White House', Philadelphia, PA |
| 1800/00/00 | The Lazaretto is built to processes immigrants and deal with contagious diseases, 1799-1800 | The Lazaretto, Essington |
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