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Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | The Great Debate | 4

American History Tellers

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What Is the Difference Between Doctors and Scientists?

In 2016 your book about the epidemic feverish bodies and enlightened minds in it You refer to the people studying the epidemic at the time as investigators today. We would look to doctors or epidemiologists, but what would we think of these investigators today? Do they resemble our current disease specialists? Many of them were doctors and they were trained in medical schools and underwent some kind of Apprenticeship so there's some consistency in the medical field With scientists it's a little bit different just the term scientists wasn't even coined until middle of the 19th century People did science they investigated nature and they did it in roughly similar ways to today.

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