Excerpt from Selections From the Diaries of William Appleton, 1786-1862 Aged 44, of typhus fever, called Spotted fever, which he caught while min istering to his people in their great need during an epidemic in the town, caused by the importation of infected rags used for manufacturing purposes. He was a graduate of Brown University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.