Compare And Contrast A Yellow Fever In 1793

in 1793 there was a huge fever outbreak killing over 2000 people. It was treated two different ways. Dr. Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia’s best doctor recommended bleeding the patient, While the french doctors had a more sensible way of drinking liquids and rest. This outbreak was called yellow fever. The disease was transmitted by infected mosquitoes, and the virus brought by refugees. There is no sure treatment and never was in 1793. This will tell you how It was treated by doctors in 1793, some methods working and others meaning certain death.

Though they have these differences, their treatments were also similar in some ways. They both require the patient to rest and also drink fluid. One thing is obvious. To be treating this they really

had to care. The french doctors came and the philadelphia doctors stayed to support philadelphia. They both needed to feed the patient and give them something to drink. If they didn’t feed the patient, they would die regardless of the severity of the sickness.

French doctors and those in philadelphia treated the virus in very different ways. The doctors in philadelphia treated it with unsafe ideas, like putting them in a clear room filled with dirt, while the french doctors used safer treatments like rest and liquids. Dr. Benjamin Rush, philadelphia’s best doctor had the idea that it poisoned the blood and so he drained out their blood. The french doctors had experience with the disease and knew how to cure it a safer way, with water and rest.

As You can see, french doctors, and philadelphia doctors are very different but also the same. They are the same in their caring for their patients, And though they had different treatments they both saved lives. In a time of crisis they came to the rescue and saved many lives. Both were caring enough that they put their lives on the line, sometimes to total strangers.