An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy. Houghton Mifflin Company/Clarion.
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Yellow fever disrupted the federal government, divided the medical establishment and destroyed the lives of thousands of Philadelphians in the disastrous epidemic of 1793, one of many in cities around the world until the cause of the disease was identified at the beginning of the 20th century.
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0-395-77608-2