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  2. www.history.com › news › yellow-fever-outbreakWhen the Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793 Sent the Wealthy ...

    Jun 11, 2020 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. During the hot, humid summer of 1793, thousands of Philadelphians got horribly sick, suffering from fevers and chills, jaundiced skin, stomach pains and vomit tinged ...

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  4. curiosity.lib.harvard.edu › contagion › featureThe Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793 | Contagion ...

    From the Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. The first major American yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia in July 1793 and peaked during the first weeks of October. Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital, was the most cosmopolitan city in the United States. Two thousand free Black people ...

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  6. www.gilderlehrman.org › history-resourcesReports on the yellow fever epidemic, 1793 | Gilder Lehrman ...

    Reports on the yellow fever epidemic, 1793. Between August 1 and November 9, 1793, approximately 11,000 people contracted yellow fever in the US capital of Philadelphia. Of that number, 5,000 people, 10 percent of the city’s population, died. The disease gets its name from the jaundiced eyes and skin of the victims.

  7. pabook.libraries.psu.edu › literary-culturalPhiladelphia Under Siege: The Yellow Fever of 1793

    This 1797 map still depicts a city with neighborhoods clustered closer to the waterfront, where mosquitoes could easily spread yellow fever among the people of Philadelphia. Philadelphia proved an ideal climate for the spread of yellow fever in the summer of 1793.

  8. blogs.loc.gov › loc › 2020The 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic: The Washingtons, Hamilton and ...

    May 28, 2020 · Her interest was personal. In the summer of 1793 when a devastating yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia she was in the city, then the U.S. capital, as the wife of the president. Carey, a publisher and bookseller, was also there. He joined a committee that helped the poor and sick who stayed behind when the wealthy fled.

  9. whyy.org › segments › yellow-fever-epidemic-of-1793Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793: ‘All was not right in our city.’

    Oct 25, 2019 · In August, prominent physician Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, long considered the father of American medicine, described an “unusual number of bilious fevers, accompanied with symptoms of uncommon malignity.”. He concluded that, “All was not right in our city.”. Yellow fever, gone from Philadelphia for 30 ...