Research Paper On Yellow Fever

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Yellow fever is a monster to society . I am a first year physician that volunteered to help cure with the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. I am required to report back to King George III. My job is to figure out what treatment is better, the Philadelphia treatment or the French treatment. It happened in 1793 when lots of people died. Thousands of people died from the yellow fever. Also the French treatment for yellow fever has similarities and differences, and the Philadelphia treatment for yellow fever has similarities and differences to.

Similarities between the French method and the American method of treating yellow fever include the fact that both types of doctors are trying to cure fever victims. Also both doctors believed

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