How Does The Fever Affect Their Bodies?

Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of

Fever 1793 is a book about a teenage girl living in Philadelphia during the time of the yellow fever outbreak. Mattie Cook, the main character, has to overcome many hardships in order to survive. The book revolves around the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. The yellow fever is spread by mosquitos, and it is still relevant today.

People had no hope of ending this terrible plague. Many doctors and nurses were doing their best to help cure the fever and end the Yellow Fever madness forever. All was lost until the cold front eliminated Philadelphia’s mosquito population and the death toll fell to 20 per day by October 26. People were happy that the Yellow Fever had finally ended. Over the years better medical treatments had been improved over the years. They began to use treatment that didn’t involve letting a person bleed to death or any other dangerous treatments that could hurt someone. Today, there is a vaccine that prevents the Yellow Fever around world.

In the early 1900’s medicine was making some steps closer into some great improvements for health and better understanding of the human body. Doctors with sufficient knowledge of the human body and cures for diseases and viruses were scarce. People were much more concerned with government and politics, than health and medicine, until one of the greatest and most grotesque lethal pandemics that’s struck the earth in human history. This pandemic the “Spanish Flu” spread so rapidly and had an extremely high mortality rate. This was caused by the close contact of humans and poor cleanliness and sanitation, and the host (virus) and the body taking harsh action

Before the 18th century, medicine had not advanced beyond the practices of bloodletting and balancing the four humors of the body. These medical practices were not effective and did more harm than good. It was not until the Scientific Revolution that physicians slowly started to learn more about the human body and how functions. The numerous advancements of medicine in the 18th century and resulting benefits to European Society are reflected in the lack of medical practices before the 1700s, the creation of the smallpox vaccine, and improved techniques.

Laurie Halse Anderson Fever 1793, many people in Philadelphia were facing a disease called “Yellow Fever” the patients were to get help immediately or they would soon die. During the rough times, most people of the city fled to a safer place where the fever did not eat off others. These times were rough for the people and most couldn’t afford to flee the city or it was too late to consider it. The people were to wait till winter which is when the fever left and the city was safe again.

A great misfortune took place during the summer of 1793. It was one of the driest and hottest summers in years making way for many disease spreading pests like mosquitoes (Gum 1). Said bugs and rodents took the lives of thousands leaving Colonial America in terrible condition. The College of Physicians not only established organization during this time of chaos, but they also limited future epidemics like the events that took place in Philadelphia and Colonial America from occurring again. To expand upon, the college created eleven rules for people to follow in order to prevent Yellow Fever from dispersing any further (Dobson 2). These rules included avoiding “all unnecessary intercourse” with those who have contracted the disease; housing all of the diseased in a large open room, removing “offensive matters from the diseased’s room” (2), frequently cleaning the selected room, and bathing the infected as quickly as possible; having a medical center for each city so the poor can also be assisted with regards to Yellow Fever; putting a stop to the ringing of the church bells; burying the dead fever victims in a private manner;

France was at war with many countries. John Adams later would write 10,000 citizens marched in Philadelphia, threatening to drag Washington and make him declare war. Adams thought that the yellow fever prevented chaos. At the start, people believed that the two-thousand five-hundred city’s African-Americans were immune to the fever. Philadelphians initially blamed the outbreak on refugees from France. People believe the disease spread person to person. Recommendation for ridding of the disease were smoking tobacco, cleaning yourself with vinegar, carrying a tarred rope, covering the floors of rooms with a two-inch-deep layer of dirt, chewing garlic, hanging a bag of camphor around your neck, lighting bonfires, and setting off guns in the

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel Fever 1793 takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when the Yellow Fever epidemic is flooding through the city. The novel is focused around Matilda or as she is called in the book Mattie Cook, and her family. Mattie is faced with many difficulties throughout the novel, including sickness, death, loss, and learning how to be independent. By using personification and descriptive word Anderson creates the theme that fear can cause people to mature or act differently in situations. At the start of the sickness spreading, (pages 68-69 ) Mattie’s mother Lucile is sick in bed with, what they were told was “just a virus”.

Fever 1793 is a historical fiction novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson. It takes place in Philadelphia, when the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 hit. Mattie’s family gets separated from each other, and some never come back from the illness. As a result, Mattie is left with hardships that would change her way of life. By using character development and the story’s epilogue, Laurie Halse Anderson tells the theme that hardships can actually help people’s personality and actions.

To begin, the Philadelphian doctors insist of taking out 162 ounces (over a long period of time) of blood out the the yellow fever victim. Second of all, they (Philadelphian doctors) splash water on the patient's. In paragraph 3 it says, “Throw a few buckets of cold water on the patient.”. Alongside, the French doctors make the victims take a ice cold bath instead. Last of all, the American doctors burned nitre so the patients could inhale it. It reads in paragraph 2 “Burn nitre (potassium nitrate) and inhale the

Fever 1793, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a historical fiction book that depicts the tragedy of the yellow fever virus outbreak in Philadelphia. Mattie Cook, the main character, deals with a tremendous amount of death and change throughout the book. The theme of the book, that people will do the right thing even if they know that risk, is supported by the author throughout the use of repetition and similes.

Jim Murphy, in his nonfictional narrative An american Plague, describes in vivid detail the challenges faced by the citizens of Philadelphia during the devastating Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. During the dreadful and deadly time, there were many selfless volunteers to stepped forward to help. Mayor Matthew Clarkson was one of the brave individuals who chose to stay in Philadelphia to provide leadership, despite the danger. Through his strong sense of duty, his selflessness, and unwavering perseverance, Mayor Clarkson became a symbol of heroism for all the selfless volunteers who stayed and made a real difference in Philadelphia.

The Yellow Fever virus came from Central or East Africa. With transmission between primates and humans, the virus has been spread from there to West Africa. The virus was probably brought to the Americas with the slave trade ships from 1492 after the first European exploration. The first case of Yellow fever was recorded in Mexico by Spanish colonists in 1648. Consequently, the virus started to spread also in North America. In Philadelphia in 1793, more than the 9% of the population die. The American government had to escape from the city that was the temporary capital. One of the most famous outbreaks happen in Europe in Barcelona in 1821.How explains the article "The 'plague' of Barcelona. Yellow Fever epidemic of 1821", the outbreak of

The historical research done into the lives of the principals, details of historical events and of the virus of yellow fever. As Crosby asserts, yellow fever came from West Africa to the United States on slave ships, is carried by mosquitoes and thrives in warm and wet environments (History.com Staff, 2009). However, in the book Crosby focuses the view of the history of yellow fever in the United States on the Memphis epidemic of 1878. While this was a massive epidemic and the worst one in American history, (Crosby, 41), the research leaves out other major predecessors to the Memphis epidemic. The Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic in 1793 depopulated the nation’s capital at similar levels and was the first major outbreak in the United States (Graham, 2016). Outbreaks continued. The outbreak in New Orleans in 1853, settled in the perfect environment for an outbreak, killed a whopping 7,849 (Waits, 2016). Though these epidemics and others are mentioned in Crosby’s account, they are presented as more of an afterthought than an important part of the history of yellow fever as they