Yellow Fever

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

While reading An American Plague, I noticed an interesting detail that Yellow Fever could actually be prevented. Murphy (2003) notes that doctors noted the symptoms of the sick patients from the disease Yellow Fever. Some of the symptoms were pain in the back and painful aching in the body. This detail led me to wonder if there was a way that you could prevent Yellow fever. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that wearing bug repellent will reduce the chances for getting bit by a mosquito and they also talk about having more clothing on your body will also help because then mosquito's can not bite you. The article also talks about vaccines because we know have a yellow fever vaccine and that will cure yellow fever.

In this chapter it talks about how Catherine LeMaigre was dying, and dying horribly and painfully. The two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. They were trying to find out if they could stop the plague from spreading.

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, as the country grew and trade flourished, periodic epidemics struck regions of the nation as population density increased. Outbreaks of influenza, cholera took over the nation, and in the south, one of the most prevalent was yellow fever. Due to these diseases, a lot of public health policies were either created or changed to better suit the new issues arising. In this essay, I will argue that the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 brought upon many changes in the health realm in terms of public sanitation. In order to prove the epidemic s place in the history of health policies, I will be discussing the creation of the new sewer system, waste disposal techniques, and other projects created.

We all know that the Yellow Fever in 1793 is now history, but that doesn’t mean we should forget about. We have learned that our ancestors have tried to fight the disease. Over the years modern medicines has been helped people get healthier. We have to learn the mistakes they made before and try to improve it and make it

Over twenty-two thousand workers lost their lives in nine years working on the Panama Canal. A plethora of diseases ran ramped throughout the region; these included some of the worst diseases the world has ever seen such as the bubonic plague and typhoid fever. The most prevalent of diseases in the region were yellow fever and malaria. These diseases were especially prominent to the community of canal working because of the heat and humidity in this part of the world. The tropical conditions in the climate happened to be perfect

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

Throughout history many different diseases have infected the world. Such diseases consist of measles, mumps, malaria, typhus and yellow fever. Many of these diseases are caused by different things and originated in different countries.

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

The doctors that came up with the treatments for this disease were French and American. The American and French doctors were similar in many ways. They both treated yellow fever and they were both curing in the same city ,Philadelphia.

Philadelphia 1793, Philadelphia was one of the most most populated places in the world with 50,000 people in it. Philadelphia started having issues like yellow fever until fever victims started showing results of what happens when you get the sickness, soon people left the cities to be close to how many people left it was approximately 20,000 people. With people leaving faster and faster per day since people were dying, people got scared I would to, since at the end of the day over 5,000 people died.

Throughout the nineteenth century, no country paid a larger price for yellow fever the United States, and the thought of the time period was that yellow fever imported from the Cubans. After an Untied States victory, 80% of the American soldiers reportedly had contracted yellow fever, which resulted in a commission lead by Walter Reed to discover the mosquito

Though this is not common knowledge, or “untold”, Molly Caldwell Crosby’s The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped our History is a resource that accounts it in its entirety. Its thorough account of medical and cultural history surrounding the virus is a guide through every part of the virus’s time in the United States, eradication, and eventual long term effects. The book is a paramount resource for anyone looking for a thorough knowledge of the subject of yellow fever, and shows that the United States, and the world, truly would not have been the same without the existence and manifestation of yellow fever in

Most people don’t know that 10% of people that get Yellow Fever die from it. However some viruses are more harmful than others which may scare some people. The many symptoms of Yellow Fever may make this viral infection seem frightening even though there is a treatment available, the history is quite unique, but how it is spread may surprise people.