Bring Out Your Dead

"A brilliant and model treatment of one of the most macabre incidents in American History."-New York Herald Tribune

"A brilliant case study of the visitation of the scourge in Penn's city."-American Historical Review

"A fascinating history of Philadelphia's great plague. Historian Powell's conscientious grubbing among the records pays off with a cumulative effect of horror and heroism seldom found in the most artful fiction."-Time

"Unique in its weaving of the timeless aspects of human behavior with an authentic account of a major epidemic in American and medical history, this book is carefully researched and a very good read."-Nursing History Review