Philadelphia Yellow Fever

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.

All was not right in the capital of the early united state or Philadelphia. Many people were dying of a fever that slipped under the radar.

In Philadelphia, 1793, a disease that haunted and still haunts America to this day was the yellow fever. It was caused by a little but deadly mosquito called aedes. It spread this disease to many people and it killed around 5,000 people per town. It was the most deadly plague in American history. Some say it was like the black plague. I’ll be talking about why it’s called the Yellow Fever, how did it spread, how it got to America, how it affected the capital, about our local area back then, the people who were trying to help fight it, and the first hospital ever built.

Yellow fever is a deadly disease caused by a viral infection that is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Although it is found to be most common in males in their early 20's, yellow fever can affect any sex, race, or age. Since yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes, it is most often found in areas such as Central America, the northern half of South America, and Central Africa where mosquitoes are abundant. The reason why it is found so often in these

Yellow Fever blew through Philadelphia like a huge tornado storm, killing people one by one as it goes by in summer 1793. Over 5000 were killed by this deadly disease that many know as Yellow Fever. Many might be wondering how this disease came to be what it is today. It forms by one little mosquito bite on your body that injects the “poison” like substance. These mosquitos came from the forgein ships that came to Philadelphia in 1793.The “treatment” that they believe in to cure this fever was pretty odd.

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 fully comprehend the effect the yellow fever had on Pennsylvania in 1793, it is necessary to understand disease itself. This instance of widespread yellow fever in Philadelphia is known as an epidemic. An epidemic occurs when there is a pathogen present in the same area area as vulnerable a large number of people vulnerable to the said pathogen. Another common term for an epidemic is outbreak, but an outbreak usually occurs within a more limited area than an epidemic. An epidemic or outbreak can be brought on by an increase of a microbe that causes illness, the introduction of a disease-causing microbe into a new environment, a change to the environment that allows the pathogen to spread more readily, hosts in an area becoming more

When researching the epidemic, i learned that some of the third-phase symptoms of yellow fever are jaundice, vomiting blood, shock and multi organ failure leading to death. The author describes all of these things in the novel through the eyes of Mattie. She describes the symptoms when talking about her mother when saying that, “the fever had taken hold of her symptoms and she wept, calling my father’s name,” and when she describes her mother’s eyes as “cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red,” and when she talks about her mother being violently ill and vomiting blood all over the bed and floor. Although the fever itself is the prominent subject of the story, they're are many other things in this novel that tie this book accurately to the time period and make it a historical fiction novel. The fever took a toll on

Yellow Fever, a disease that can’t be cured as of this century. In 1793, Yellow Fever had come to Philadelphia and killed thousands of people. There were some that have lived thru the epidemic which were the lucky but those who were not all died from Yellow Fever. One of the people that survived the epidemic was a teenaged girl name Mattie Cook. She survived the Yellow Fever disease and had to undergo many challenges thru this epidemic.

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,

1793: the yellow fever has taken over Philadelphia like butterflies migrating. I am a first year physician to volunteer to help fever victims. I, the physician, am doing this so I can report back to to King George the III. There were over a 1,000 people that died of yellow fever in Philadelphia. That is most of the population in Philadelphia. So I am going to study these two methods (the two methods are the American method and the French method.)

The incident of the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia occurred in 1793. The Yellow Fever was definitely a hard thing to go through, especially Matilda and her family. In the beginning, Mattie is very tenacious but at the end is very spontaneous and brave. We think the theme of Fever is always fighting through hard times because Mattie fights through everything even when she feels like she has nothing. She doesn’t stop even when no one can help. Even though she was inevitable to terrible things happening because of the Fever, she still fought. These are a few reasons why we think the theme of Fever 1793 is always fighting through hard times.

To start off, there were several similarities between the Philly and French doctors. First of all, most of the doctors cared about their patients like a brother, but there was no veritable cure for yellow fever. They all tried their best to aid everyone, but nevertheless, most of their patients died. Another similarity is, how

Most concoctions that were given were just remedies to relieve symptoms as there is no cure -- even to this day. “Headaches were relieved by rose, lavender, sage and bay. Sickness or nausea was treated with wormwood, mint, and balm. Lung problems were treated with liquorice and comfrey. Vinegar was used as a cleansing agent as it was believed that it would kill disease.” The shortcomings of medical science were highlighted by the Black Plague, it caused people to change their focus. People became aware of the need of surgeons and focus on human bodies different various states of sickness and