1793+yellow+fever

====//**Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The yellow fever virus is transmitted by the bite of a female mosquitoes.They thrive in hot summers such as the one of 1793. However the start of the the epidemic was french refugees from haiti who where suffering from yellow fever or yellow Jack.**//====

====//**The epidemic of 1793 was one of the worst in U.S history killing 10% of the Philadelphia.The most common cure was ten and ten or ten ounces of mercury and ten grains of the drug jalap. Both substances are toxic. DR.Rush also used bloodletting to cleanse the body of the fever. However bloodletting killed more people then it saved. Dr.Rush for his bloodletting was called Prince of Bleeders.**//====

//**The college of physicians put out a list of things the citizen could do to protect the selves from the fever.These where like cleaning the streets ,firing gunpowder in the air or covering there mouths with vinegar drenched cloths. However after the fever spread thought the city people stopped trying to stop the fever and flee the dying city .**//