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	The Diseased City
		We should remember that the Philadelphia of 1793 was the nation's largest city and its national capitol, as well as the Pennsylvania state capital.
		Both Alexander Hamilton and his wife contracted the fever and were treated as outcasts on their flight to Albany--a pattern that would repeat itself for almost all of the diseased refugees.
		Philadelphia's famed corps of physicians could agree neither on the causes of the yellow fever, nor its most effective remedy.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA96/forrest/WW/fever.html (2000 words)

	Pennsylvania - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A large tract of land north and west of Philadelphia, in Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware Counties, was settled by Welsh Quakers and called the "Welsh Tract".
		Democrats are the majority in the Philadelphia area, as well as around Allentown and the Poconos in the east and in the southwestern part of the state and the Pittsburgh area in the west.
		In Philadelphia today is the shrine and burial place of Saint John Neumann, himself a Czech immigrant, who worked for the betterment of the new arrivals and who founded the American parochial school system.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /pennsylvania.htm (3547 words)

	RUSH - LoveToKnow Article on RUSH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He gained great credit when the yellow fever devastated Philadelphia, in 1793, by his assiduity in visiting the sick, and by his bold and apparently successful treatment of the disease by bloodletting.
		He died in Philadelphia on the igth of April 1813, after a five days' illness from typhus fever.
		His part in the yellow fever controversies is indicated by La Roche (Yellow Fever in Philadelphia from i6gg to 1854, 2 vols., Philadelphia, 1855) and by Bancroft (Essay on the Yellow Fever, London, 1811).
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RU/RUSH.htm (478 words)

	MALK1
		The major examples to be cited are the outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 and the repeated epidemics of this disease in Haiti in the 1790's and early 1800's.
		The first case of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 was diagnosed in early August by Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the most renowned physician in the United States at that time.
		The Philadelphia outbreak demonstrates the effects of sudden overwhelming disease spread on an urban population: stimulation of a sense of community, heightened religious concerns among life and death struggles, financial problems from an economy that stops functioning, and convictions of physicians about the origin and proper treatment of the disease.
	www.chilit.org /MALKIN2.HTM (5039 words)

	Drexel University School of Public Health - History of Public Health in Philadelphia
		In 1919, the City of Philadelphia reformed the DPHC as the Department of Public Health, as which it remains at present.
		Philadelphia experienced all the attendant problems of expansion many of which manifested themselves as "public nuisances." Overcrowded housing, open sewage, decaying buildings, and insufficient garbage collection were some of the problems monitored by the Board of Health.
		The impact of the yellow fever epidemic was still felt as the Board of Health pushed for a dependable supply of clean water for the city.
	www.drexel.edu /pubhealth/html/history.htm (774 words)

	City History Lessons
		In 1793 Philadelphia had a wet spring, leaving behind swamps and stagnant pools that became breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
		Rush and his fellow physicians diagnosed the disease as yellow fever and suspected the cause to be putrefied air-miasma-from a spoiled cargo of Santo Domingo coffee that had been dumped on the docks.
		Fever 1793, a fictional account of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, is an excellent book for readers of all ages.
	www.philadelphiahistory.org /akm/lessons/yellowFever (546 words)

	Fever 1793: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Fever 1793 is based on an actual epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia that wiped out 5,000 people--or 10 percent of the city's population--in three months.
		At the close of the 18th century, Philadelphia was the bustling capital of the United States, with Washington and Jefferson in residence.
		In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
	www.newyorkwebhosting.us /stuff-0689848919.html (3396 words)

	Week 7 Readings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The rapid progress of the fever from Water-street and the courses through which it travelled into other parts of the city, afford a strong evidence that it was at first propagated by exhalation from the putrid coffee.
		in 1732, 1739, 1745, and 1748 in Charleston, in 1791 in New-York, and in 1793 in Philadelphia.
		This frequent occurrence of the yellow fever at the usual period of our common bilious remittens, cannot be ascribed to accidental coincidence, but must be resolved, in most cases, into the combination of more active miasmata with the predisposition of a tropical season.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/PlaguesandPeople/week7c.html (6984 words)

	Jacob Hiltzheimer Diaries, American Philosophical Society
		A strong proponent of Independence, Hiltzheimer was entrusted by the Philadelphia Committee of Safety with taking firelocks out the city for safe keeping in 1776, and on August 13, 1777, he took the Oath of Allegiance confirming his patriotism.
		As a representative of the city of Philadelphia to the Quartermaster General, he was also given charge of procuring supplies, including horses, for the Continental Army.
		Hiltzheimer does not seem to have feared yellow fever himself, never leaving the city for more then a few days during any of the epidemics, and he does not seem to have evacuated his family either.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/h/hiltzheimer.htm (1293 words)

	Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia, 1793
		With a population of approximately 55,000 in 1793, Philadelphia was America's largest city, its capital and its busiest port.
		Philadelphia's ravenous mosquitoes provided the perfect vehicle for spreading the disease by first lunching on an infected victim and then biting a healthy one.
		The burning fever occasioned paroxysms of rage which drove the patient naked from his bed to the street, and in some instances to the river, where he was drowned.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /yellowfever.htm (1187 words)

	Africans in America/Part 3/The Yellow Fever Epidemic
		Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of 1793 was the largest in the history of the United States, claiming the lives of nearly 4000 people.
		At the urging of Benjamin Rush, the support of Philadelphia's free fl community was enlisted by Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and William Gray, a fruitseller who along with Allen and Jones had secured support to build the African Church the previous year.
		In an effort to prove themselves morally superior to those who reviled them, Philadelphia's fl community put aside their resentment and dedicated themselves to working with the sick and dying in all capacities, including as nurses, cart drivers, and grave diggers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3p1590.html (242 words)

	Linking Literature to Social Studies to Community Resources
		Fever 1793 cannot help but be incensed by Carey’s false accusations, and, again, search the Internet and libraries to find the Carey article and the Allen and Jones pamphlet.
		A notable exception was the mayor of Philadelphia, Matthew Clarkson, who stayed in the city, established the Mayor’s Committee, and sought to help the citizens with food and aid whenever possible.
		Fever 1793 not only is the vocabulary useful for language arts lessons, but social studies concepts and understandings are imbedded in the words and phrases themselves.
	www.udel.edu /dssep/articles/fever.htm (2707 words)

	Here Is To Your Health -- Part Three (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The beginning of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1870 was traced to the brig Home that arrived at the Lazaretto from Jamaica on June 29, 1870.
		This graph illustrates the reduction in the death rate from typhoid fever in Philadelphia, as pure filtered water supplies became available to all city residents.
		The danger of typhoid fever as an epidemic was eliminated with the completion of the city's water filtration system in 1912.
	www.phila.gov /health/history/parts/part_3.htm (949 words)

	Explorations in Medicine and the Biosciences
		In August of 1793, a serious outbreak of yellow fever affected Philadelphia, which was at the time the capital of the newly formed United States of America.
		Yellow fever came to Philadelphia from the West Indies, ships carrying goods to Philadelphia also carried mosquitos, and because the ships were not quarantined upon entry to the port, the mosquitos were able to spread the disease quickly.
		The yellow fever epidemic of Philadelpia models a case of Urban Yellow fever, where the populations to be considered are Human and Mosquito.
	www.shodor.org /succeed/biomed/labs/fever.html (673 words)

	CRORA : RESUME DES PUBLICATIONS
		He was a renowned professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a founder of the prestigious College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
		Meanwhile a yellow fever epidemic remains a worrisome possibility ln the U.S., particularly in the Deep South, where large populations of A. aegypti are found.
		After their experience with the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Benjamin Rush and his medical colleagues would have firmly agreed.
	www.pasteur.fr /recherche/banques/CRORA/res3/re1317.htm (1311 words)

	A Melancholy Scene of Devastation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In modern America, where the triumph over disease is often taken for granted and yellow fever has ceased to be a menace, it is difficult to appreciate the fear once engendered by this disease.
		The 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic was no mere round of sickness but a major public health emergency that paralyzed city functions, halted business and trade, and caused a breakdown in social institutions.
		The fever's devastating effect on what was then our nation's capitol is apparent in the grim statistics it left in its wake: more than 17,00 people fled the city for safer environs, nearly 5,000 died, and hundreds of children were orphaned....
	www.shpusa.com /books/melancholy.html (266 words)

	Philadelphia Tribune, The : Fever means body is fighting infection: don't overtreat it @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		What this speaks to is that most of us parents don't really understand what the true significance and role of fevers is. I asked my friend if it was okay to focus on fevers.
		Fevers in children are signals that the body is fighting off an infection.
		Fevers show that the body is defending itself against an invader.
	static.highbeam.com /p/philadelphiatribunethe/october271998/fevermeansbodyisfightinginfectiondontovertreatit/index.html (247 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		On April 17, 1799, the Health Office of the Port and City of Philadelphia published in the city newspapers a complete copy of the health laws of the state of Pennsylvania.
		Section 18 of the 1799 health laws, clearly directed at the laboring poor, shows that not all Philadelphians agreed with the health laws and were willing to use force to voice their displeasure.
		Every year between 1793 and 1805 yellow fever infested Philadelphia or the neighboring cities of New York, Baltimore, and Wilmington, bringing with it fear, death, and devastation to the citizens of these cities.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~shear/s99abs/SeanTaylor.htm (599 words)

	Fever 1793 Teachers Guide
		Philadelphia was home to the largest population of free African-Americans in the United States.
		This is a historical fiction literature unit based on the novel, Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson, set in Philadelphia, PA, during the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793.
		Students will compare the lifestyle of Philadelphia in 1793 to Philadelphia in 2002, using a graphic organizer, indicating similarities and difference in duties and chores, occupations, religious observances and affiliations, clothing, politics, and attitudes toward slavery.
	www.writerlady.com /fever1793_teachers.html (4005 words)

	Booktalks Quick and Simple
		In Fever 1793, we are introduced to young Mattie Cook who along with her mother and grandfather runs the Cook Coffeehouse, a popular eating house at the corner of 7th and High Streets through in the new capital of Philadelphia.
		It is mid August 1793 and the city is sweltering a seemingly endless hear wave when news comes of a fever taking hold of the city.
		Worrying that Mattie will fall ill with the fever, her mother sends her to the country to wait it out with friends.
	nancykeane.com /booktalks/anderson_fever.htm (299 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leonard Neale
		During the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, in 1793, the two priests of that city were stricken and Father Neale gladly took their place.
		During the second visitation of the yellow fever to Philadelphia in 1797-8, he was overtaken by the dread disease.
		While in Philadelphia Father Neale had made the acquaintance of Miss Alice Lalor, through whose aid he started a small school conducted by three ladies, which was destined to be the seed of a great religious order of female teachers in America.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10728d.htm (722 words)

	MISL - Major Indoor Soccer League
		While Philadelphia and Pittsburgh featured local talent, for example, New York only had three natives on their squad (although, to be fair, the Arrows had a few Canadian players).
		Played before 6,096 fans in Philadelphia, the Arrows were down 2-0 in the first half, spotting the opposition an early lead as they had done all season.
		Philadelphia’s Fred Grgurev scored a hat-trick in the team’s first match, followed that up with a four-goal effort in the Fever’s home opener, and rode the momentum from those performances to the league scoring title.
	www.oursportscentral.com /misl/197879.html (1180 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Fever 1793 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The opening scene of Anderson's ambitious novel about the yellow fever epidemic that ravaged Philadelphia in the late 18th century shows a hint of the gallows humor and insight of her previous novel, Speak.
		Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (Studies in Health Illness and Caregiving) by J.
		Anderson's plot is set during that terrible summer as the teenaged heroine, Mattie, faces the outbreak and its manifold horrors at times alone, and sometimes with those she knows.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0689848919?v=glance (1889 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002151355
		In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices.
		Drawing on first-hand accounts, Murphy spotlights the heroic role of Philadelphia's free fls in combating the disease, and the Constitutional crisis that President Washington faced when he was forced to leave the city--and all his papers--while escaping the deadly contagion.
		The search for the fever's causes and cure, not found for more than a century afterward, provides a suspenseful counterpoint to this riveting true story of a city under siege.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hm031/2002151355.html (257 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Fever 1793 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		She struggles to rejoin her family but the fever is still spreading fast which makes it hard to survive.
		The best thing about this book is the part where Mattie finds a little girl named Nell that is all alone because her mom died of the fever and the worst thing is that so many people die from Yellow Fever.
		Fever 1793 is a good book based on an actual event.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0689838581 (1391 words)

	Pittsburgh's legal community experiences a case of Philadelphia fever - 1998-06-08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Philadelphia law firms are growing their presence here through expansions, driven by the strategic filching of Pittsburgh attorneys from their native firms.
		Philadelphia firms with a Downtown presence include Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman and Goggin; Pepper Hamilton and Sheetz; Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP; and Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis.
		Nashville News Orlando News Philadelphia News Phoenix News Pittsburgh News Portland News Raleigh/Durham News Sacramento News St.
	www.bizjournals.com /pittsburgh/stories/1998/06/08/focus3.html (693 words)

	Michelle Malkin: PHILADELPHIA FEVER: THE MUMIA PARADE
		My birthplace, Philadelphia, threw a welcome party over the weekend for French leftists who are infatuated with convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal.
		But when the large crowd arrived with escorts from the Philadelphia Police Department's Civil Affairs unit after marching around City Hall chanting Abu-Jamal's name, Street's staff decided to let them all into the mayor's reception room.
		Maureen Faulkner, widow of the slain cop Abu Jamal was convicted of shooting in cold blood, is outraged.
	michellemalkin.com /archives/001513.htm (674 words)

	Baseball Fever - The Philadelphia Fertilizer?
		In 1883, the Worcester Brown Stockings dropped a load in Philadelphia, and since then the Phillies have lost more games and finished in last place more times than any other Major League team.
		As we have noted, "Phillies" is appropriate since the team, like the cigar, stinks and is cheap, but we are in the 21st century, and surely a nickname should reflect not only an aroma but also what passes for gray matter in the Mensa-like minds of management.
		Such a name would also mirror what the seats are going to look like in the new Philadelphia ballpark.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=3158 (489 words)

	Philadelphia Phillies
		The Philadelphia Phillies are the longest standing same-named, same-city team in American professional sports, having been born to the National League in 1883.
		We have great Philadelphia baseball tickets and other cheap tickets, as well as concert tickets.
		The franchise has had two other unofficial nicknames: 1883-1889 Philadelphia Quakers and 1944-1945 Philadelphia Blue Jays, but neither of these names were ever officially recognized by the Phillies, by the National Leauge or by Major League Baseball.
	baseball-almanac.com /teams/phillies.shtml (1452 words)

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