English 7: Fever Context.

Write the Major Event/Historical Figure’s Name Here

Choose the best research (you may combine several different pages of notes) from previous meetings and revise, adding details and images (maps, historical illustrations, etc) to include, as well as several cited sources (Wikipedia may only be one).

Stephen Girard was in the book a man who oversaw a mansion turn into a hospital and hired doctors and nurses to help citizens heal from the Yellow Fever. In real life he did exactly the same. Also he took charge again in the outbreak in 1788-1789. After the Yellow Fever he opened a bank in Philadelphia and lived the rest of his life running it.

Dr. Benjamin Rush the doctor in Fever was a founding father and signed the Declaration of Independence. He fought for women’s rights and opposed slavery. He strived to learn more about mental disorders and was one of the founders of american psychiatry. The doctor focused on the poor and his status grew. When Rush was appointed to surgeon-general of the middle department of the Continental Army.

· In 1793 a horrible pestilence called yellow fever started in Philadelphia.

· A group of refugees who escaped turmoil in the Caribbean islands, arrived in Philadelphia. Many of the refugees had yellow fever and that it started to spread through Philadelphia.

· Mosquitoes helped spread the disease by sucking some out of infected people’s blood and biting a healthy person, where it would get in their blood and infect them.

· People thought that yellow fever was a miasmatic disease from rotting vegetables, which is a disease you can get from pollution or “bad air”.

Works Cited:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/rush.htm