Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

In my student selected novel, “Fever, 1793”, many different events took place that wouldn’t happen in today's time. The biggest being the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia. It was widespread and grew like wildfire across Mattie’s hometown. The citizens had a hard time getting rid of the fever. Not until the frost came did the death count go down along with the number of people getting sick. In today's time we have more advanced systems in which we can take down a virus. Doctors have a…

Introduction In the novel, Fever 1793, authored by Laurie Halse Anderson we are introduced to a young girl named Matilda “Mattie” Cook. When we first meet Mattie she is being woken up by her mother and finds that a mosquito is buzzing around in her ear. Her mother is telling her to wake up and get to work because their servant girl, Polly, is running late. They soon come to find out that Polly has passed away from a disease called yellow fever. Mattie and her family are not aware of the wave…

Matilda Cook, Little Mattie, is a 14 year old girl who lived through the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. She lived above a Cook Coffeehouse, owned by her family. She lived with her mother, grandfather, cat, Silas, and her grandfather’s annoying, bad mouthed parrot, King George. Lucile, Matilda’s mother, hasn’t been the same since her husband died. She was a busybody and kept Matilda busy, cleaning and waitressing in the Coffeehouse. Matilda’s grandfather, Captain William Farnsworth Cook, was…

Literary Essay: “Fever 1793” Laurie Anderson’s historical fiction story, Fever 1793 is about the big massacre that happened in Philadelphia. The disease (Yellow Fever) destroyed everything in its path by sickening people and even killing them. The feeling of losing loved one's changed everyone. Not just emotionally, but also physically. By using emotions within sentences and dialogue, Lisa Anderson shows the lesson death can change a person. Because of this whole epidemic, Mattie has grown…

Carlos Finlay and the Yellow Fever On October 11, 1793, the death toll from the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia had reached 100. By the time this epidemic ended, 5,000 people (9% of the total population in the United States at the time) were dead (Frierson 2010). Due to an unknown cause of illness, in addition to the rapid onset of the disease, yellow fever would be regarded as one of the most devastating diseases at the time. We now know that yellow fever is a serious disease caused by an…

Two books that have very different genres- and are pretty much different in every other way- are,"Fever 1793," by Laurie Halse Anderson, and,"Tiger's Curse," by Colleen Houck. These two books have almost no similarities and that makes it easy to pick a favorite genre- whether it's historical fiction or sci/fi fantasy. To really know the differences between these two genres it's important to pay close attention to the conflict, culture, and the setting. One difference between these two…

Yellow Fever emerged as a health threat in the United States in the late 17th century, until America’s last outbreak in 1905. It caused at least 150,000 deaths in the United States. Major cities were the first to be hit, with Boston in 1693, then Philadelphia in 1793, and then Memphis and the Mississippi River area in 1878. The Report of The Expedition For The Relief of Yellow-Fever Sufferers On The Lower Mississippi by U.S. War Department Lieutenant, Charles S. Hall looks at the effects of…

the text; thus, allowing him or her to comprehend the text, as well as expand his or her knowledge regarding a particular subject matter. The paper will describe my process of completing a transactional reading journal assignment for Anderson’s Fever 1793 and Murphy’s An American Plague. What was it…

I would like to introduce you to a man. This man loved God and pursued Him diligently; he was a man who had weaknesses same as you and me, but also a man who had yielded his life to Christ and desired for God to work through him for God’s glory. I have come to admire this man very much. His name was Benjamin Rush. In Benjamin’s early years he suffered the loss of his father. His mother moved her young family to Philadelphia where she opened a grocery store to provide for her children. Determined…

For thousands of years, people have been playing, planning, and exploring with the hopes to find the mystery of the human body. Public health has always combined the best form in treating cancer, delivering babies to dealing with heart attacks. Doctors and scientist have developed technology and improved techniques. The issue that doctors in this era face is broken medical systems and the right insurance company. Doctors will become better at tackling health problems and new techniques with…