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Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793: Fears & Falsehoods: With Lindsay Graham. In September 1793, yellow fever continued to ravage Philadelphia. As the death toll mounted, Dr. Benjamin Rush raced to find a cure.
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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 ...
Mar 26, 2020 · The people Lining listed as susceptible to yellow fever—whites, mulattoes, Native Americans, and people of mixed European and Native American heritage—were born in America or recently arrived from Europe. Lining witnessed blacks who probably survived yellow fever as children in Africa, where the disease was endemic.
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.
Apr 3, 2012 · Yellow Fever Couldn’t Keep Philadelphia Down Watch the story of our stubborn roots in Fever 1793, airing on 6 ABC at 7:30 p.m. on April 4th. By Sam Katz · 4/3/2012, 11:29 a.m.
Apr 4, 2012 · Fever: 1793 (1790-1820): Directed by Nick Briscoe. With William Bryant Jr., Leonard Dozier, Barbara Edwards, JaQuinley Kerr. Documents the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, a disease that ravaged Philadelphia and led to the death of over 5,000 citizens.
Yellow Fever: Directed by James Davey. With Walter Staib. In the summer of 1793, a terrible plague swept through Philadelphia. Yellow Fever wiped out ten percent of the population.
