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Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | The Great Debate | 4

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The Impact of the Yellow Fever Epidemic on American Medicine

There's parallels between the 1790s epidemics and modern epidemics. The next big movement in American medicine really starts after 1815 with the end of the Napoleonic Wars. So I argue that yellow fever Accelerated the professionalization and the institutionalization of medical and scientific research.

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