Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | The Great Debate | 4
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Do Local Conditions Prefer Yellow Fever Treatments?
Yellow fever is not directly contagious person to person, but is contagious if local conditions are right. Localists were also partly right that local conditions favored the occurrence of yellow fever because itis-egypti mosquitoes did find a home in Philadelphia. The treatments don't align perfectly with the causal theories, so there's a range of treatments Benjamin Rush one of the better known Doctors of the period had this heroic treatment where he practiced these you know dramatic bloodletting on his patients. There was a French cure which involved administering quinine the anti-malarial and subjecting the patient to cold baths.
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