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It was 1795, and the yellow fever—which had burned through Philadelphia two years earlier, killing more than 10 percent of the city’s population—had arrived in New York. It would return in ...
ADVERTISMENT. "The horrors were heart rendering." Samuel Breck was a Philadelphia merchant newly arrived to the city: "I had scarcely become settled in Philadelphia when in July, 1793, the yellow fever broke out, and, spreading rapidly in August, obliged all the citizens who could remove to seek safety in the country.
History, science, politics, and public health come together in this dramatic account of the disastrous yellow fever epidemic that hit the nation's capital more than 200 years ago. Drawing on firsthand accounts, medical and non-medical, Murphy re-creates the fear and panic in the infected city, the social conditions that caused the disease to spread, and the arguments about causes and cures.
For accounts of African Americans during the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic and extended analysis of A Narrative, see Phillip Lapsansky, “‘Abigail, a Negress’: The Role and the Legacy of African Americans in the Yellow Fever Epidemic,” in A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1973 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic, ed. J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith ...
The new republic was only four years old, its capital recently established in Philadelphia, when the country suffered its first catastrophic epidemic. Yellow fever broke out in August 1793 and ravaged the city for three months, only subsiding in November. Twenty thousand people fled the city, as many as 5,000 died (ten percent of Philadelphia ...
Feb 19, 2019 · Early signs and symptoms are not specific to RMSF (including fever and headache). However, the disease can rapidly progress to a serious and life-threatening illness. See your healthcare provider if you become ill after having been bitten by a tick or having been in the woods or in areas with high brush where ticks commonly live.
Despite its name, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) occurs in practically all of the United States and throughout Central and South America. Small-vessel vasculitis can cause serious illness affecting the central nervous system, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, and spleen; untreated mortality is about 20%. Symptoms (severe headache, chills ...
