Philadelphia Fever 1793

When the plague first infected a person, it began with swellings in the groin and armpit (Document 2). Some of the swellings could be the size of an apple or an egg (ibid.)! After the first swellings appeared, the whole body would soon be covered in dark and bluish grey spots (ibid.). Soon after these spots covered the body, death would be upon the infected person within days (ibid.). Many doctors tried to cure people of these symptoms, but many failed (ibid.) This was because of the nature of the illness or the ignorance of the doctors’ (ibid.). The doctors didn’t know enough about the disease to be able to effectively treat their patients’

“The execution of Louis XVI marked the beginning of an 18- month period of the French Revolution that has come to be called “The Reign of Terror” (Background Essay: Was it justified). The French revolution lasted from 1789 until 1794. During this period of time, the most terrifying part was the Reign of Terror. Even though some of the intentions from the Reign of Terror were good, it was a very destructive and unnecessary time.

This disease was very deadly and killed many due to the fact that many people did not know they had Yellow Fever. If one did show symptoms of the disease it usually happened 3-4 days after contraction making it too late for anything to be done to help with the symptoms. The most common symptoms would be fever, headache, jaundice, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. Since there was no cure for this disease this contracting it would ultimately lead to death. Once contracted the disease incubates in the body for 3-6 days causing sever pain and suffering before death.

At his time, medical professionals did not fully understand yellow fever. In fact, most scientists believed that the virus was spread by contact with infected objects or people, a miscalculation that would not be remedied until the 1840s, half a century after the 1793 epidemic in Philadelphia.

1] The fever caught us all by surprise, every day more citizens will become ill, we lost countless loved ones.It seemed like the end of the world though we did not surrender.We worked with each other and after a long wait, we brought Philadelphia back to its original state.

Imagine yourself sick and no cure in 1793 in Philadelphia your dead or someone else is dead. If I lived during 1793 in Philadelphia the struggles would include disease, survival, death. To begin, the whole book is about yellow fever and yellow fever is a disease. For example the story initially starts in the second chapter, Polly one of Matilda's friend dies from a fever but they do not know what fever. What this means is that the fever is barely starting in Philadelphia. Additionally, it has seemed that survival was very important and very hard in Philadelphia. On page 24 in the first sentence it had said how many people have died already “A week later sixty-four people had died.” This explains that the fever was going very quickly and you

Yellow fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever, was one of the deadliest diseases to hit North America. It is transmitted by female mosquitoes of the Aedes aegypti species. When a person is infected with the disease, the symptoms of high fever, nausea, vomiting, yellowing of the skin (also known as jaundice) and muscle aches occur. The cause of Yellow Fever was not known to colonial doctors. It would not be known until 1900. Until then, eighteenth century doctors used the only knowledge they had to fight the

As the people of Saint Joseph and Iola started to prosper, a true nightmare was easing its way into their world in the form of Yellow Jack. The schooner “Herald”, on September 21, 1840, came into Saint Joseph port. The ship’s Captain, George L. L. Kupfer was dead from yellow fever. The people of Saint Joseph suspected that the yellow fever was contracted in the Greater Antilles. At first it was not much concern, the townspeople took care of the few sick and carried on business as normal. It was not long before the fever started to spread. Once it started, it spread quickly and without discrimination. The fever and effects spread past the boundaries of Saint Joseph and made its way to Iola and Apalachicola. But Saint Joseph was

Yellow fever came in like a wrecking ball, across Philadelphia, wiping out everyone in it’s path. American and French doctors' are finding out cures to save the infected victims. In Philadelphia of 1793, around 2,000-5,000 people were killed by yellow fever. The reasoning behind why they got yellow fever was because the infected mosquitos. The mosquitoes came in by foreign ships, because of the water at the bottom of the ships.

Yellow Fever, an epidemic that broke out in 1793. The people treating this disease was the doctors from Philadelphia and France. And what was happening is that this yellow fever was being treated. Now you this all started in 1793 when yellow fever started breaking out worse than ever. Now where this is happening was in Philadelphia. This happened is because of those pesky infected mosquito. This happened because with the infected mosquito came infected refuges. The worst part is trying to figure out how many people died because no one really knows exactly how many people died. We know it’s somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 and it’s so sad what happened and that back then we didn’t know enough about this to really help

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.

On May 1,1793, I left my home of the Caribbean. All my family has perished,so I'm going to America to change my life. When I get there I hope everything will be alright.

The virus “ yellow fever “ was spread by mosquitoes in the late 1690s. In the late summer of 1793 the yellow fever epidemic fled philadelphia. Between august 1 - november 9 around 5,000 plus people died because of the yellow fever. 10% of the population died. During the yellow fever the weather was dramatically hot and dry. 20,000 people left the city to get away from the fever because of that the population kept going down. People believed that african-americans were the ones who had the fever first so once they came to philadelphia they caused others around them to get the fever as well. Doctors tried to find a bunch of treatments but non worked. In 1793 philadelphia was the capital of

The plague that was going around, was called the yellow fever. The yellow fever is a deadly disease that has no cure. This disease will make you bleed on the inside of your body. When this blood dries up in your body, you could potentially throw it up. Also this disease can and will

Yellow Fever is a dangerous viral infection. Yellow fever gets its name from the fact that the disease typically causes the skin to become yellow as well as producing a fever. Brian R. Shmaefsky, author of the book Yellow Fever explains that "Yellow fever is also known by other names. Throughout history yellow fever was called black vomit, vomito negro, sylvatic fever, and Yellow Jack. Black vomit, or vomito negro, is known as very dark vomit that many infected people produce. Sylvatic fever gets his name from the fact that the disease is common in areas with jungles or forests. The name Yellow Jack was given by the newspapers because yellow fever was perceived to be as destructive as any enemy troop". In cartoons the disease was pictured as a skeleton wearing a yellow military jacket. The Virus is transmitted by mosquitoes in tropical regions, so it cannot be spread person to person by direct contact. The disease is principally spread in tropical regions of Africa and America. Every year it is recorded 200,000 cases of Yellow Fever, and 30,000 of that die. However, because of the poor record-keeping, the data recorded do not reflect the reality. Moreover, in the last years, epidemics are increasing the number of people affected by Yellow Fever. Even though there are ways to prevent it, it is dangerous because it can cause death and also it has many symptoms.