1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic

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“Bring out your dead.” In 1793 Yellow Fever wiped out almost all of the population of Philadelphia. I, Ida Brown, sister of Clara and Elizabeth Brown, am a fever specialist in Philadelphia trying to cure this apocalyptic epidemic. We three were sent by King George III here, his orders. The French doctors just arrived from Haiti. There treatments are very different as well as similar to ours. Now, I shall compare and contrast the two different treatments. The Philadelphian and French doctors have similar treatments in many ways. One way is that both the doctors were both able to diagnose Yellow Fever in a ill patient. The two, French and Philadelphia doctors could cure patients of the fever, as well. Even though the Philadelphian doctors killed