Quaker merchant in Philadelphia to his sister in Essex, Old England, 1753
“I wonder both thou & the Physician should Blunder so as to take thy being with Child for the Dropsy & Yellow Jaundice; our Physicians in America could hardly have done worse & they would have been heartily Laugh’d at to have been guilty of so great a mistake.”
“I wonder both thou & the Physician should Blunder so as to take thy being with Child for the Dropsy & Yellow Jaundice; our Physicians in America could hardly have done worse & they would have been heartily Laugh’d at to have been guilty of so great a mistake.”