| 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,
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| 1793/07/28 |
After a short, but server illness, Mary Long Tobias, wife of Tobias Lear, dies of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia. |
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| 1793/07/29 |
Mary Long Tobias, wife of Tobias Lear, is buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia. |
Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
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| 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
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| 1793/08/00 |
Benjamin Rush treats his patients with "heroic medicine", including copiously bleeding and large quantities of mercury. |
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| 1793/08/00 |
Dr Philip Syng Physick stays in the Philadelphia to treat the sick during the yellow fever epidemic |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 1793/09/29 |
Samuel Powel dies of Yellow Fever. He is interred at Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia |
Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
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| 1793/10/14 |
Dolley Todd loses her husband, John Todd, and her infant son, William Temple Todd, to Yellow Fever |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 1800/00/00 |
The Lazaretto is built to processes immigrants and deal with contagious diseases, 1799-1800 |
The Lazaretto, Essington
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