Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- New Nation
- Ist Teil von
- Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic, 2012, p.95-112
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: NYU Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- September 11, 1793. Philadelphia, the temporary capital of the United States, had suffered for weeks from (in the parlance of the day) a bilious malignant fever. The victims had black grainy vomits, nosebleeds, and headaches. Their skin and eye whites turned yellow. In a matter of days, sometimes hours, death followed the first symptoms. Most of the early cases were clustered near the dock where, Elizabeth Drinker noted in her diary for August 16, disintegrating coffee beans, recently unloaded from a ship, had emitted a strong stench that added to the smells of the usual rotting foods. Clearly that was
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780814787175, 0814787177DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814787175.003.0007Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_18574_nyu_9780814787175_003_0007
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- African Americans, America, American minorities, American Revolution, Anthropology, Arbovirus infections, Behavioral sciences, Benjamin Rush, Biological sciences, Biology, Bleeding, Cardiovascular physiology, Cardiovascular system, Circulatory system, Cities, Disease outbreaks, diseases, Economic disciplines, Economics, Employment, Epidemics, Epidemiology, Ethnic groups, Ethnology, excessive bleeding, Health and wellness, Health care industry, Health sciences, Hemic system, HISTORY, History of Science and Technology, Human geography, Infections, Labor economics, Medical conditions, Medical personnel, Medical practice, medicine, Metropolitan areas, Occupations, Physicians, Physiology, Political geography, Political organizations, Political parties, Political science, Public health, Slavery, Slaves, smallpox, Social organization, Social sciences, Sociology, System physiology, vaccination, Viral infections, Yellow fever