Figure 3.
Valentine Seaman’s 1798 maps of yellow fever in New York were the first to be published in the then-new medium of medical journals and the first to use maps in an evidentiary argument of a local outbreak’s locus and potential spread
In one, circles with dots represented deaths, while open circles were mild or suspected cases of yellow fever, including non-fatal cases in a ship in New Slip. Image: Author’s collection.