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  • Yellow fever had broken out in Charleston, and "if it only gets among those 15,000 [prisoners] encamped on the race course it will make them beautifully less."†   (source)
  • "Then came the Nazi occupation—my grandfather avoided having SS officers housed in the place by claiming my father had contagious yellow fever…which he didn't, but it tricked the Germans into going elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Two are plotting a kidnapping, one is planning to smuggle dress shirts infected with yellow fever into his dresser drawers, and another intends to blow up the White House.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever.†   (source)
  • What about diphtheria and yellow fever?†   (source)
  • …orange beads big as peach pits (to conceal the joining at the neck)-none of that, any more than the forest scene so unlike the Mississippi wilderness (that enormity she had been carried to as a bride, when the logs of this house were cut, her bounded world by drop by drop of sweat exposed, where she'd died in the end of yellow fever) or the melancholy clouds obscuring the sky behind the passive figure with the small, crossed feet-none of it, world or body, was really hers.†   (source)
  • The French doctors came from the West Indies, where they treat yellow fever every year.†   (source)
  • "Everyone else has died of yellow fever," I lied.†   (source)
  • Yesterday a physician I shall not name diagnosed yellow fever in an elderly woman.†   (source)
  • He doesn't have yellow fever, if that's what you're asking.†   (source)
  • Philadelphians were desperate for anything to prevent or cure yellow fever.†   (source)
  • She died, but she didn't have yellow fever.†   (source)
  • "But Dr. Rush says yellow fever is spreading everywhere," Eliza said.†   (source)
  • The doctors thought us Africans couldn't get yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Blanchard's plans for a second flight in the city were ruined by the yellow fever epidemic.†   (source)
  • —Philip Freneau, Pestilence: Written During the Prevalence of a Yellow Fever, 1793.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever still exists, but not in the United States.†   (source)
  • Black people can get sick with yellow fever just like white people or Indians.†   (source)
  • —Philip Freneau, Pestilence: Written During the Prevalence of a Yellow Fever, 1793.†   (source)
  • Some fled to the countryside, others died of yellow fever.†   (source)
  • The yellow fever will discourage the growth of great cities in our nation.†   (source)
  • We haven't seen yellow fever in Philadelphia for thirty years.†   (source)
  • People kept getting sick until the frost killed off the mosquitoes that spread yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever had certainly done away with vanity.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever had scattered the residents of Philadelphia to the four winds.†   (source)
  • At the end of the last century, fleeing the scourge of yellow fever that devastated Panama during the construction of the railroad between the two oceans, he had arrived along with many others who stayed here until they died, living in Chinese, reproducing in Chinese, and looking so much alike that no one could tell one from the other.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever?†   (source)
  • Yellow fever.†   (source)
  • After leaving Philadelphia in the middle of the yellow fever epidemic, George Washington headed south.†   (source)
  • Seeing her mother's body, quite clearly a victim of yellow fever, on the bed seemed to make her mute.†   (source)
  • If the yellow fever were a soldier, you'd run it through with your famous sword and sit down to a hearty dinner.†   (source)
  • In the 1930s a vaccine was developed, but yellow fever still kills thousands of people a year in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South America.†   (source)
  • Some thought that black-skinned people couldn't get yellow fever, but I had seen two sick in the hospital.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever was wrestling the life out of Philadelphia, infecting the cobblestones, the trees, the nature of the people.†   (source)
  • My sheets and shift were soaked through with sweat, blood, and the foul-smelling black substance that marked a victim of yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Robert has an appointment with the mayor this very day to insist that he put an end to the rumors of yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Under the leadership of Jones and Allen society members worked day and night to relieve the suffering of yellow fever victims.†   (source)
  • The yellow fever outbreak that struck Philadelphia in 1793 was one of the worst epidemics in United States history.†   (source)
  • Rush's insistence on perilous remedies for yellow fever patients was a rare misstep for the energetic doctor.†   (source)
  • Polly Lear, a good friend of Martha Washington's, had contracted yellow fever in the early days of the epidemic.†   (source)
  • "It is not yellow fever," he said.†   (source)
  • Captain William Farnsworth Cook, Pennsylvania Fifth Regiment, here to escort you beyond the lines of the dread and terrible enemy, Yellow Fever, Miss Matilda.†   (source)
  • Your mother has yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever.†   (source)
  • YELLOW FEVER TODAY†   (source)
  • Yellow fever, William.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever?†   (source)
  • He felt wretchedly ill with a cold so severe that he thought he might have yellow fever, which he did not.†   (source)
  • Nancy had vaccinations for yellow fever, Q fever, Rift Valley fever, the VEE, EEE, and WEE complex (brain viruses that live in horses), and tularemia, anthrax, and botulism.†   (source)
  • By July 25, when the Adamses set off, people were already dying in what would become the worst yellow fever epidemic since 1793.†   (source)
  • After reading Wolcott's report on the ravages of yellow fever at the capital, Adams sent an anonymous contribution of $500.†   (source)
  • Yellow fever again raged in Philadelphia, as they learned en route, and soit was necessary to stop and wait at East Chester with Nabby.†   (source)
  • That yellow fever, like malaria, is transmitted by mosquitoes (which also vanish with cold weather) would not be understood for another hundred years.†   (source)
  • It was early November before she was well enough to come downstairs, and it was early November before Philadelphia was declared once more free of yellow fever.†   (source)
  • Secretary of the Navy Stoddert, Adams's consistently loyal supporter, urged him to come at once to Trenton, New Jersey, where the government had set up emergency quarters until the yellow fever epidemic passed in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • While the war fever of summer had by no means vanished like the yellow fever, the spirit of opinion heard in the shops and taverns, and within the councils of government, was noticeably more moderate, and in large part because of the British victory at the Nile.†   (source)
  • Washington, too, had spent long sessions at Mount Vernon (though never for seven months), and with Philadelphia hit by yellow fever every summer and fall, the government barely functioned there for several months.†   (source)
  • Talk of sickness and death—of insomnia, melancholy, her persistent, baffling fevers—dominated the domestic scene, just as sickness and death filled the newspapers, week after week, as yellow fever spread in Boston, New York, Baltimore, and worst of all in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • But when the army he sent to crush the slave revolt in San Domingo was wiped out by war and yellow fever, Bonaparte abandoned his plans and suddenly, in 1803, offered to sell the United States all of the vast, unexplored territory of Louisiana.†   (source)
  • There was a request for the President's approval to build a lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, a request from Secretary Wolcott for authority to borrow up to $5,000,000 on behalf of the United States, reports from Wolcott on the yellow fever epidemic.†   (source)
  • According to common understanding, the cause of yellow fever was the foul, steaming air of late summer in cities like Philadelphia—"a putrid state of air occasioned by a collection of filth, heat, and moisture," as Abigail explained to her sister Elizabeth—and the "proof" was that the disease always vanished with the return of cold weather.†   (source)
  • When, in the aftermath of the yellow fever epidemics of 1793 and 1797, Rush had been publicly attacked for his bloodletting treatment, both by Philadelphia physicians and the press, and his practice dwindled to the point that he could barely survive, Adams, who was then President and struggling with troubles of his own, had appointed him treasurer of the United States Mint.†   (source)
  • So they did not even miss him from town at first; it was the County Medical Officer who told your grandfather that he had yellow fever and that Judith had had him moved into the big house and was nursing him and now Judith had the disease too, and your grandfather told him to notify Miss Coldfield and he (your grandfather) rode out there one day.†   (source)
  • Why, he had the yellow fever three times; twice at Nassau, and once at St. Kitts.†   (source)
  • "Do you suppose I would take you to a nest of yellow fever?" cried Morris.†   (source)
  • "Why shouldn't you catch yellow fever quite as easily as I?†   (source)
  • He had the yellow fever, and for twenty days and nights I watched with him.†   (source)
  • If there is yellow fever, why should you go?†   (source)
  • She recalled how annoyed he had been because she could not remember whether the yellow fever mosquito was Anopheles or Stegomyia—or was it Aedes?†   (source)
  • He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever.†   (source)
  • While she was at her Ohio home on her vacation, the worst epidemic of yellow fever broke out in Memphis, Tenn.†   (source)
  • They've already lessened the terrors of meningitis and pneumonia, and yellow fever is on the verge of complete abolition through Noguchi's work, and I have no doubt their hospital, with its enormous resources and splendidly co-operating minds, will be the first to find something to alleviate diabetes.†   (source)
  • If I could trust you, Martin, to use the phage with only half your patients and keep the others as controls, under normal hygienic conditions but without the phage, then you could make an absolute determination of its value as complete as what we have of mosquito transmission of yellow fever, and then I would send you down to St. Hubert.†   (source)
  • With him Martin watched the heroes of yellow fever, Reed, Agramonte, Carroll, and Lazear; with him he landed in a Mexican port stilled with the plague and famished beneath the virulent sun; with him rode up the mountain trails to a hill town rotted with typhus; with him, in crawling August, when babies were parched skeletons, fought an ice trust beneath the gilt and blunted sword of the law.†   (source)
  • Do you think I show symptoms of yellow fever or cholera, that you are making post mortem arrangements with such zeal?†   (source)
  • Rotting weeds have poisoned the air, and this poisoned air causes the yellow fever that devastates these wonderful countries.†   (source)
  • His Excellency Colonel Rawdon Crawley died of yellow fever at Coventry Island, most deeply beloved and deplored, and six weeks before the demise of his brother, Sir Pitt.†   (source)
  • This was no other than Captain William Dobbin, of His Majesty's Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had ordered his regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the Peninsula.†   (source)
  • Now was the time the —th had so long panted for, to show their comrades in arms that they could fight as well as the Peninsular veterans, and that all the pluck and valour of the —th had not been killed by the West Indies and the yellow fever.†   (source)
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