Mattie, How Would You Describe The Fever Of 1793

In 1793 Philadelphia suffered from a deadly disease that spread all through the town; it was called yellow fever. The Philadelphia Doctors and the French doctors were attempting to treat yellow fever. The doctors had many ways to try to fix this, but they did not have the technology we do today. Yellow fever occurred 1793. The outbreak happened in Philadelphia. This sad event that killed many people was all because of infected mosquitoes. They came over with the ill refuges. About 2,000 to 5,000 people died. All in all, this was one of the one of the worst things to occur in history

Fever 1793 is a novel about a fourteen-year-old girl named Matilda “Mattie” Cook who comes of age during the crazy yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda’s family has a free slave because her husband paid to get her free and she is now saving up her money to free her husband. Then later her husband died. Matilda’s father died so Matilda, her mom, and her grandfather all live together. Matilda in the book is a normal teenager, for the most part at least. Matilda’s body is changing, some are because of hormones but not all, she does not like the sound of her mom’s voice, and she also has a crush on a boy named Nathaniel Benson. Nathaniel Benson is also a painter. The outbreak of yellow fever creates a dire situation,

During this period of history, new forms of science and scientific discovery were in their infant stages on the world stage. However, the ideas of Magic and Sorcery were still established in the minds of the people. Because of this, the ideas and theories of new scientific discoveries were often compared to or mistaken as witchcraft (Lace, 1995). Lace (1995) cites Historian Lacey Baldwin Smith, who elegantly explained this relationship as " A strange composite of the old and new, chemistry and alchemy, astronomy and astrology, mathematics and numerology, medicine and magic, observation and sorcery" (p. 69). Many well-respected men of the time would often meld science and magic to try and answer their questions about the world and how it

The Black Death arrived in Europe in October 1348. It was also known as The Blue Sickness or the Great Mortality (Extra, 2011). Today it is known as The Plague, The Black Death or The Black Plague.

"As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story- to tackle different characters with different issues, " said Eric Jerome Dicky. Mattie, from Fever 1793, is a fourteen year old girl in the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1793. She lives in Philadelphia with her mother and grandfather. Throughout the novel Mattie experiences many heart-aches and death, unlike Rachel. Rachel, from "Eleven," is a ten year old girl turning eleven and she is not happy about it. She lives in a modern time period with her family. In the short story Rachel experiences a rough time in her classroom. Mattie, from the novel Fever 1793 and Rachel, from the short story "Eleven," are two similar girls with two different circumstances.

How many people died? 4,000+people died. This happened in Philadelphia during 1793. Who? The American and French doctors. Why? Foreign ships brought mosquitos. How? Infected mosquitos. What is it?… Yellow Fever.

The once thriving city soon became distraught under the raging epidemic, leaving many to fight for their own lives. Though an effective vaccine now exists, yellow fever still kills some 30,000 people every year, about 90 percent of them in Africa. A bout of the disease typically begins with fever and chills, after which the patient seems to recover. Philadelphians kind of blamed the 1793 outbreak, which started with two deaths in August, on shiploads of refugees from the French colony of Saint-Domingue on Hispaniola, who were escaping that island’s slave

The fever was consuming Philadelphia. Thousands of people were killed. My name is Elizabeth Brown sister of Clara and Ida Brown, we three are physicians coming over from England. We have arrived in Philly and we are volunteering to help out in Bush Hill but, there are other physicians from Philadelphia that rumor has it that they are actually killing people. There are similarities between treatments of the Philadelphia doctors and the French doctors aka us.

Matilda or Mattie is the fourteen year old protagonist and narrator of this book, Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. She is the typical teenager. She would rather play than work. She avoids doing her chores and would rather watch her mother do them than herself. She is lazy and a procrastinator but she is also nurturing. She took care of her mother while she was sick, she took care of her grandfather on their trip to Ludington’s farm and she also took care of an orphaned, homeless girl named Nell.

In conclusion, I have explored some different sides of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793 and their effects. In late September, the rainy and cloudy weather stopped the virus from spreading. More than five thousand people died because of this disaster. For a long time nothing could be done other than furnishing coffins for the dead and men to bury them. From my point of view, the government should have established more hospitals and medical centers at that time and should have had a specific strategy to deal with that

A new form of pneumonia, called Legionnaire’s Disease claimed the lives of 34 people who attended a convention in Philadelphia while 221 others became infected.

In 1793 a prompt fever ran through the urbanization of Philadelphia like the swiftest track contestant in the universe. That pyrexia was called yellow fever. If you had a vile case of yellow fever you had the choice of a French physician or an American physician to treat you.Yellow fever blew in Philadelphia by the nonresident freights. It happened in the burning, arid like the inhabited in the summer of 1793. If you got taint by yellow fever you must have gotten dab by negligible, hypersonic , uproarious mites. Grievously 2,000 to 5,000 vital forces croak because of this slayer contagion.

Benjamin Rush declared that a yellow fever epidemic had started. The first victims were many teenagers who had worked by the docks and so many believed the slaves from Saint-Domingue carried the virus. Quartines were set up around the slaves for weeks, but once that showed ineffective to the spread of the virus the slaves were let go. At the time Philadelphia was the capital of the country so many lived there and it was a compact city with around 50,000 residents. After the declaration of the yellow fever epidemic, many of the cases were Arch Street Wharf. Since they thought it wasn't from the slaves, why would the fever still be occurring by the Wharfs? Dr. Rush blamed the sickness on rotting coffee by the wharfs. But then cases of the fever were occurring in Kensington. While the fever worsened Dr. Rush created a list of 11 measures you should take to prevent the

There were ways doctors tried to treat the victims of yellow fever in Philadelphia in the same way. For one they were both the best doctors in the city and other places around the world. The best doctors wanted to figure out a cure as fast as a rabbit. Another point is these doctors cared a great deal about the patients

You also switch classes, every period you have a different teacher. In 6th grade the teachers are Mr. Davies, Mr Tucker, Mrs. Haas, and Dr. Taylor. We learn various things during a school day. Let’s start off with Science with Mr. Davies; so far we have mostly learned about weather. Such as ocean currents, the water cycle, and hurricanes and tornadoes. We have done a project on tornadoes or hurricanes. Additionally we have Following that in language art we are reading great books like Fever 1793, and Number of the Stars. As we read the books we work on a compare and contrast essay. For fever 1793 we compared and contrasted the French and the Philadelphia doctors and on the book Number of the Stars we compared and contrasted a poem to a life