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A Short Account of the Malignant Fever (1793) was a pamphlet published by Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) about the outbreak of the Yellow Fever epidemic Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia in the United States. The first pamphlet of 12 pages was later expanded in three subsequent versions.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 is a 2003 nonfiction adolescent history by author Jim Murphy published by Clarion Books. An American Plague was one of the finalists in the 2003 National Book Award and was a 2004 Newbery Honor Book. It portrays the agony and pain this disease brought upon ...
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. New York: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0-395-77608-7. Powell, John Harvey (1993) [1949]. Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Reprint. (Introduction by Foster, Jenkins & Toogood). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania ...
The book depicts the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, which engulfed the city. Bibliography. Thomas George E., Cohen Jeffrey A. & Lewis, ...
The sequel, Arthur Mervyn; or; Memoirs of the Year 1793. Second Part , was released in 1800 and is now very rare, with only a few collectors succeeding in obtaining both volumes. [ 2 ] The novel has also influenced other American Gothic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe , in writing The Masque of the Red Death , published in 1842.
In 1793, there was an outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia. Although many other well-to-do citizens chose to leave the city, Girard stayed to care for the sick and dying. He supervised the conversion of a mansion outside the city limits into a hospital and recruited volunteers to nurse victims, and personally cared for patients.
With the spread of yellow fever in 1793, physicians of the time used the increase number of patients to increase the knowledge in disease as the spread of yellow fever, helping differentiate between other prevalent diseases during the time period as cholera and typhus were current epidemics of the time as well. [13]
Fever, 1793; S. Speak (Anderson novel) T. Twisted (Laurie Halse Anderson novel) W. Wintergirls This page was last edited on 16 January 2013, at 17:41 (UTC). Text ...