In the Hot Zone, Richard Preston demonstrates how devastating Ebola and other filoviruses can be to large populations. In the book, Preston describes true events during an outbreak of Ebola virus at a Monkey facility in Reston, Virginia in 1980. He also gives background from other viral outbreaks in Africa in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The second part of the novel was intriguing to me because the book explained how the patients were diagnosed. Usually when the doctor came to the patient's home, after a few checks, they would diagnose the patient had yellow fever although they only had a minor summer grippe of a type of fever. This was mainly shown when a doctor came to diagnose Lucille and immediately said she had yellow fever. The main reason this was done was because the doctors thought that disease was spread through smell or by refugees who lived by the river instead of understanding that the disease was spread by mosquitoes. The main characters in this part of the novel were Mrs. Flagg, Dr. Deveze, Grandpa, and Matilda.
One of the diseases talked about in this document are small pox. In Document E it states, “ A great cloud seems at present to hang over this province…”. What this quote means that small pox are covering the town and people are getting sick and some leaving. Smallpox was a disease that made it hard to settle Charles Town because it spread throughout the settlement at got the settlers sick and some also died, and also the Native Americans. The Native Americans were not introduced to this disease until they came.
The novel Fever 1793 , written by Laurie Anderson, is a narrative which describes the yellow fever epidemic in the late 1700’s. This epidemic caused the deaths of 5,000 or more people in a town of 50,000 in only 3 months. A young girl named Mattie from the town of Philadelphia has to deal with the deathly illness spreading around the world. The novel begins with the death of Mattie’s childhood friend, Polly. The citizens continued their daily lives shrugging off the death as a fluke and tried to ignore the fact that something was very wrong.
Yellow Fever Essay In 1793 a rapid fever ran through the city of Philadelphia like the fastest track runner in the world. That fever was called yellow fever. If you had a despicable case of yellow fever you had the choice of a French doctor or an American doctor to treat you. Yellow fever came to Philadelphia by foreign ships.
There is a deadly killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia, unfortunately you are just a merchant, who happens to be in the lowest part of society, therefore fleeing the city is not an option because you are unable to afford it. In this case, what would you do? The year was 1793, it was the end of a summer that would seem to last forever, but fall was right around the corner. It was a time of celebration for the people of Philadelphia after all they did win the American Revolution, but at the blink of an eye all that would come to an end. Unnoticeable, yes it was by the simple fact that Philadelphia was one of the busiest cities.
How did Scarlet Fever affect US in 1900s Scarlet Fever affected the U.S in the 1900s and was caused by a bacteria that spread to form rashes that affected children and sometimes ending in death. The treatment was really dangerous. They didn’t have the treatments we do today, that 's why a lot of people were killed. Scarlet fever is one the most dangerous infections of the 1900s. To began with, “Scarlet Fever is also called Scarlatina and it is an infectious disease.
As the Mayor of Philadelphia, Mayor Matthew Clarkson demonstrated a strong sense of duty throughout the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. He had felt that he should stay in Philadelphia because the people in Philadelphia where his family and if he had left Philadelphia he would have left his family. It was illegal for him to stay he had broken the law so he can stay in Philadelphia. The yellow fever did not treat his family well it had killed his youngest son and his wife had caught it and he still didn’t leave. “... yellow fever had already seized his wife and killed his youngest son, Gerard” (Murphy 24).
Judeah Auguste University of Alaska Anchorage The Doctors Plague, Sherwin B. Nuland Kraft The Doctors Plague depicts the story of the lifeline of Ignac Semmelweis, a physician in the First Division at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus hospital in Vienna and his discovery of childbed fever. Nuland opens the medical-scientific novel with a fictional story of a young nameless girl who is inching closer to her birth date. From her friend, she learns there are two obstetric divisions, one run by doctors and the other by midwives, advising the soon to be mom to stay clear of medical students. Already foreshadowing being attended by the medical students results in an uncomfortable situation, Nuland leaves the readers with curiosity and the answer to
Doctor Hugh Hodge and Doctor John Foulke. “ They gave her cool drinks of barley water and apple water to reduce the fever, and red wine with lanthanum to help her rest”. They said nothing work and her condition worsened. Next, The two doctors called in doctor Benjamin Rush.
It also indicates the hospital was a surreal, almost placid place. While in An American Plague page 105 it indicates,”so many people applied that patients had to have a doctors certificate stating that they did indeed have yellow fever.” With this many people applying to Bush Hill, it would most certainly not be a calm and relaxing place. It also suggests that this place should be like the market or town square before the fever, bustling, constant commotion and always someone wanting or needing something. It also conveys on page 13-14 of An American Plague,”the skin and eyeballs turned yellow, as red blood cells were destroyed, causing the bile pigment bilirubin to accumulate in the body;nose, gums and intestines began bleeding; and the patient vomited stale, black blood.
The reactions from the Christians and the Muslims to the greatly feared disease, known as the Black Death or the Great Plague were different in several ways. The first Plague was documented from 541 to 544 CE. Known as the Plague of Justinian. The Plague came in three different ways: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. With bubonic being the most common.
A Book Review of the Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson The Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is a well-crafted book with many historical facts and a very interesting plot line. With 243 pages of will thought out historical grabber, the book brings life into the characters and even the reader. Though Laurie Halse Anderson never wanted to be a writer, she prefers writing as a hobby. Laurie Halse Anderson really wanted to have a history profession, for she thinks that history fascinates her.
The excerpt from Louise Erdrich’s novel, The Beet Queen, tells the story of two siblings arriving in an unfamiliar town. The excerpt depicts the different reactions of the siblings to their situation. The imagery of the excerpt conveys the state of the unfamiliar environment. The selection of detail in the excerpt reveals the impact that the environment has on the children. In the excerpt from Louise Erdrich’s novel, The Beet Queen, Erdrich uses imagery and selection of detail to depict the impact of the environment on the two children.
For this book report the book that was chosen was, Fever 1793. The author of this fiction book is Laurie Halse Anderson. This book is set during the summer of 1793 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The duration of this book is over a period of a month's, essentially the beginning of summer to the beginning of fall. Matilda Cook is the main character and works in a coffee shop, her mother, Lucille , and her grandfather own.
