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Bleeding vs. not bleeding: The confusion of medicine and treatments in 1793
After the yellow fever began to get out of hand, doctors had to be treating as many patients as possible, the death toll rising close to 100 deaths per day in early october. However, opinions on treatment were not at all streamlined like they are today. As the city fell into disarray, doctors fell into more confusion about how to treat the fever, since they were still fairly clueless about its origin and how it spread. Many doctors misdiagnosed patients, or were not qualified. In the beginning, the only hospital for fever patients, Bush Hill, was teeming with under qualified physicians, thieves, and had poor treatment facilities, with many patients having to rest on the floors for lack of space. Even the city’s leading doctor, Benjamin Rush, had no effective way of treatment, though he claimed that his bleeding methods worked. His methods, which he quickly taught many others, were extremely controversial, many establishments seeing them as brutal, and wrong. While hundreds of patients began to be bled a day, a new hope for patients arose. Asked by the mayor, and mentioned in the book, Stephen Girard was put at the head of Bush Hill, firing all under qualified doctors, and devoting his time and energy to improving the hospital living conditions. While many still died there, the thievery and terrible treatments there soon came to an end.
My Sources: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/yellowfever.htm http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/yellowfever.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fever_Epidemic_of_1793
The fish represents the who active and alive she was and then we almost died only a few minutes latter. She was caring for her grandfather and he didn't have yellow fever but the doctor said that he did had it.
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