ever seen. But then things go wrong and yellow fever breaks out or “The Fever”. The Fever…
Matilda Cook, or Mattie, is a 14 year old girl who is stuck in a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Thousands died after only a month, and it wasn't long before her mother got it and sent her away to the country. All did not go well on the way there. Her grandfather got sick, prohibiting them from moving to the fever-free country land. Mattie was left to help keep him alive. Shortly after, Mattie fell ill and woke in a huge hospital surrounded by other yellow fever victims. Fortunately, her grandfather survived. However, this was only the very beginning of Mattie’s struggle to stay alive.…
The reader knows that “all was not right” because it says in the chapter “The sickness began with chills, headache, and a painful aching in the back, arms, and legs. A high fever developed accompanied by constipation. This stage lasted around three days, and then the fever suddenly broke and the patient seemed to recover. But only for a few short hours.” This quotation is showing us that this fever wasn't like the ones they had. Normally their fevers would be able to go down because of the medicine they gave the patient but this fever would go away for a short amount of time and com right because.…
There was a disease called a yellow fever, that was going around so he decided he…
Because Yellow Fever has taken over Philadelphia, Mattie must say goodbye many times despite how difficult it may be. Mattie said goodbye to Mother when she left for the countryside, when she lost the coffeehouse, and when Grandfather passed away. For example, saying goodbye to Grandfather was one of the hardest times for Mattie. At first Mattie could not believe that her grandfather was about to die. Right before he was about to pass away, Mattie kept denying it due to the fact that she did not want it to happen. Anderson writes, “Anything but this” (147). This is significant because it shows how much Mattie loved Grandfather and how hard it was to say goodbye. They were extremely close and Mattie had to witness his death, and even…
Yellow fever is a that's lasted six weeks throughout Philadelphia. I, Alex Malesich have been sent here in 1793 by king George lll from England to cure yellow fever. He wanted me to find out what is a better cure for the fever, the Philadelphia or the French cure.There has are ready been thousands and thousands of deaths. The fever has spread like a wildfire all over Philadelphia and is still going.…
The city of Philadelphia is not right during this time because of the horrible yellow fever. Doctors don’t believe that this fever is yellow fever. The church bells are going off way more than usual. Philadelphia is not right because of the deaths, experience, and the state of ignorance.…
The doctors who take care of the disease called yellow fever are Philadelphia doctors and the French. The fever was spreading like a swarm of bees going flower to flower. Yellow fever started in 1793. Ships brought infected mosquitos to Philadelphia and because of this became a horrible disaster that killed 2000-5000 people. Once the mosquito bites a person it draws blood from the person and then the mosquito bites another person where it releases the blood from the other person and then the infection starts. The doctors played an important role in treating yellow fever.…
It was not until Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross after the Civil War of 1860 to 1865, that sanitation of wounds and medical instruments were understood. Clara realized replacing a bloody bandage and sanitizing medical tools could drastically lessen the chances of infection. Sepsis during this time could have resulted in amputation or death. If a physician had successfully managed to treat a patient, the success had only been obtained through luck (Mortimer 191). This demonstrates how medicine in the Elizabethan Era was very unsuccessful and medical understanding was very limited. Therefore, lack of medical knowledge provoked the spread of disease throughout Europe.…
Yellow fever killed over 5,000 people in Philadelphia in 1793. Yellow fever is a highly contagious fever that is transmitted by mosquitoes. Some symptoms of yellow fever include an onset of fever, chills, severe headache, nausea, fatigue, weakness, and vomiting. Treatment of yellow fever in the 1700’s included bloodletting, herbs, other material treatments, and also simply doing nothing. In Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson alters history, but maintains some historical accuracy. The setting of the wharfs is both the same and different from the actual wharfs at that time.…
The yellow fever is a murder to Philadelphia. It killed thousands people in philadelphia. That why I volunteered to come to Philadelphia and put my physician training to use. I am going to write a composition of how the philadelphia way of curing the yellow fever and the french way of curing the yellow fever by the order of King George the Third I need to do this. There is to treatments that can cure the yellow fever.…
As August began, the citizens of Philadelphia became violently ill with multiple symptoms including: chills, high fevers, nausea, vomiting, delusions, and extreme pain. However, there were a couple of symptoms that were unusual, such as, black vomit and a yellow coloring of the body. The yellow coloring of a body is due, “yellow fever severely damaging the liver, which brings on jaundice, a yellowing of the skin” (Flyover History, pg. 101). This epidemic raged through the streets of Philadelphia with no end in sight, many residents were instructed to leave by the lead physician, Dr. Benjamin Rush.…
The Fever of 1793 was 224 years ago. There was no technology, no cars, no phones. The setting was in Philadelphia. It was hotter than usual summers therefore, the water level of the streams and wells went down. Stagnant water attracts mosquitoes, which carry a disease. A fever came around called “the yellow fever” it killed a lot of people, and many suffered. Doctors could not do much to stop or heal people with the fever due to lack of medical resources. Many people tried to leave Philadelphia to go to the country, but were not able to because they did not want the victims of the fever in their town.…
"Fact Sheet | CDC Yellow Fever." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC, 11 June…
This paper will examine the history of the “War on Drugs” and the racial and sentencing disparities that have resulted because of it. In the House of Representatives a new bill was introduced on January 7, 2009. Policy number H.R.265, was cited as “Drug Sentencing reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2009. The never ending drug trade and the policies that try to limit it, have far-reaching impacts in the United States and other countries. Over the last twenty years, U.S. politicians have responded to mounting drug abuse at the local and national levels with increasingly unjustly legislation. Cooperatively, these measures have become known as the ‘War on Drugs’. In the United States, these policies have focused on the link between drug, gang activity, and crime, emphasizing punishment over treatment. Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses have been put in place, leading to an explosion in the number of people incarcerated nationwide. Racial disparities in drug sentencing, particularly in crack vs. powder cocaine offenses, also stem from the ‘War on Drugs’ policy. The War on Drugs is a prevention campaign that was established by the United States Government with the aid of participating countries, with the intention of reducing illegal drug trade. This initiative includes a set of laws and policies that are intended to discourage the manufacturing and distribution of illegal substances. The term was first used by then President Richard Nixon in 1969. In June of, Nixon officially declares a "war on drugs," identifying drug abuse as public enemy No. 1. Then in October of 1986 President Ronald Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of, which appropriated $1.7 billion to fight the drug war. The bill also created mandatory minimum penalties for drug offenses, which are criticized for promoting…