An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 / by Jim Murphy.
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TextPublication details: New York : Scholastic, [2006], �2003.Description: 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0439693896
- 9780439693899
- 614.5/41/097481109033 22
- RA644.Y4 M875 2006
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"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-153) and index.
No one noticed -- "All was not right" -- Church bells tolling -- Confusion, distress, and utter desolation -- "It was our duty" -- The prince of bleeders -- "By twelve only" -- "This unmerciful enemy" -- "A delicate situation" -- Improvements and the public gratitude -- "A modern-day time bomb."
Chronicles the yellow fever epidemic of 1973, which centered in Philadelphia. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the epidemic, it includes black-and-white reproductions of period art and facsimiles of newspaper excerpts.
