Yellow Fever In Philadelphia

The fever came to life in the summer of 1793 and became an epidemic. There were many Philadelphia and French doctors working on the cure to awful yellow fever. Moreover, the doctors, both treated fever patients and they were in Philadelphia. All these patients had been bitten by infected mosquitoes and people believed that the fever had come from foreign ships. Accordingly to our history there were somewhere from 2000 to 5000 people that had expired from the epidemic.

There were ways doctors desperately tried to treat the victims of yellow fever in Philadelphia in the similar way. For one, they were no ordinary doctors both the best doctors in the city and other places around the world. The best doctors wanted to figure out a cure as fast as a rabbit. Notwithstanding these doctors could be getting sick nevertheless the doctors cared a great deal about the patients they cared for and tried to cure each one. They could've just deserted like many wealthy

According the French doctors thought the way to cure the yellow fever was ordinary, to rest, get plenty of fluids, and to take cold baths this cure is very close to the cure today. The Philadelphia doctors did all sorts of things such as bleeding the life out of you, taking baths in pepper, take lots of laxatives, and throwing dirt in the patient’s room and changing it every day these are only a few of the Philadelphia doctors remedies. Another difference is the French doctor's cure is a much more pleasant treatment than the Philadelphia doctor’s. Unlike the French doctor’s cure, the Philadelphia doctor’s cure was much more brutal watching someone bleed a ton is nauseating. The finale, but certainly not the least is the French doctors were from Haiti and were very familiar with this disease. But unfortunately, the Philadelphia doctors were not so familiar with the horrid