. Guide leaflet. < << aiinaia±sia 3kiiuino o CM 01 iZ 43 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS THE CONQUEST OF YELLOW FEVER The discovery of the mosquito transmission of yellow fever isone of the most striking and dramatic chapters of sanitary scienceand one of the brightest episodes in the history of our country. Between the years 1702 and 1800 this terrible disease hadappeared in the United States thirty-five times and between 1800and 1879 it visited the country every year with two exceptions. In1793 a tenth of the population of Philadelphia are said to haveperished from its ravag
. Guide leaflet. < << aiinaia±sia 3kiiuino o CM 01 iZ 43 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS THE CONQUEST OF YELLOW FEVER The discovery of the mosquito transmission of yellow fever isone of the most striking and dramatic chapters of sanitary scienceand one of the brightest episodes in the history of our country. Between the years 1702 and 1800 this terrible disease hadappeared in the United States thirty-five times and between 1800and 1879 it visited the country every year with two exceptions. In1793 a tenth of the population of Philadelphia are said to haveperished from its ravages. Mathew Carey writes of this epidemic, the consternation ofthe people of Philadelphia at this period was carried beyond all bounds People hastily shifted their course at the sight of a hearse coming towards them. Many never walked on the foot-pathbut went into the middle of the street, to avoid being infected inpassing by houses wherein people had died. Acquaintances andfriends avoided each other in the streets and only signified theirregard by a cold n
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