20,000 people, including Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and much of the federal government fled the city to...
Yellow Fever
The contradiction in his character is particularly well illustrated by his behavior during the Philadelphia yellow fever...
Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in 1793. “A new order of things is rising in medicine, as well...
The close of the 19th century also witnessed dramatic discoveries in the new science of bacteriology that...
Jefferson, ever sanguine, was merely trying to make the best of a wretched scenario. A yellow-fever epidemic...