Mattie, How Would You Describe The Fever Of 1793

Matilda or Mattie is the fourteen year old protagonist and narrator of this book, Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. She is the typical teenager. She would rather play than work. She avoids doing her chores and would rather watch her mother do them than herself. She is lazy and a procrastinator but she is also nurturing. She took care of her mother while she was sick, she took care of her grandfather on their trip to Ludington’s farm and she also took care of an orphaned, homeless girl named Nell.

The fever was consuming Philadelphia. Thousands of people were killed. My name is Elizabeth Brown sister of Clara and Ida Brown, we three are physicians coming over from England. We have arrived in Philly and we are volunteering to help out in Bush Hill but, there are other physicians from Philadelphia that rumor has it that they are actually killing people. There are similarities between treatments of the Philadelphia doctors and the French doctors aka us.

One of the most important reasons why the theme of Fever is to never give up, is because perseverance can help you survive through the hard times. In the book, when Mattie and Grandpa were stranded, she always kept looking for food and water, and she ended up finding water, which might have saved her life. This shows that perseverance can save your life.

How many people died? 4,000+people died. This happened in Philadelphia during 1793. Who? The American and French doctors. Why? Foreign ships brought mosquitos. How? Infected mosquitos. What is it?… Yellow Fever.

The Black Death arrived in Europe in October 1348. It was also known as The Blue Sickness or the Great Mortality (Extra, 2011). Today it is known as The Plague, The Black Death or The Black Plague.

There were ways doctors tried to treat the victims of yellow fever in Philadelphia in the same way. For one they were both the best doctors in the city and other places around the world. The best doctors wanted to figure out a cure as fast as a rabbit. Another point is these doctors cared a great deal about the patients

During this period of history, new forms of science and scientific discovery were in their infant stages on the world stage. However, the ideas of Magic and Sorcery were still established in the minds of the people. Because of this, the ideas and theories of new scientific discoveries were often compared to or mistaken as witchcraft (Lace, 1995). Lace (1995) cites Historian Lacey Baldwin Smith, who elegantly explained this relationship as " A strange composite of the old and new, chemistry and alchemy, astronomy and astrology, mathematics and numerology, medicine and magic, observation and sorcery" (p. 69). Many well-respected men of the time would often meld science and magic to try and answer their questions about the world and how it

The once thriving city soon became distraught under the raging epidemic, leaving many to fight for their own lives. Though an effective vaccine now exists, yellow fever still kills some 30,000 people every year, about 90 percent of them in Africa. A bout of the disease typically begins with fever and chills, after which the patient seems to recover. Philadelphians kind of blamed the 1793 outbreak, which started with two deaths in August, on shiploads of refugees from the French colony of Saint-Domingue on Hispaniola, who were escaping that island’s slave

A new form of pneumonia, called Legionnaire’s Disease claimed the lives of 34 people who attended a convention in Philadelphia while 221 others became infected.

Benjamin Rush declared that a yellow fever epidemic had started. The first victims were many teenagers who had worked by the docks and so many believed the slaves from Saint-Domingue carried the virus. Quartines were set up around the slaves for weeks, but once that showed ineffective to the spread of the virus the slaves were let go. At the time Philadelphia was the capital of the country so many lived there and it was a compact city with around 50,000 residents. After the declaration of the yellow fever epidemic, many of the cases were Arch Street Wharf. Since they thought it wasn't from the slaves, why would the fever still be occurring by the Wharfs? Dr. Rush blamed the sickness on rotting coffee by the wharfs. But then cases of the fever were occurring in Kensington. While the fever worsened Dr. Rush created a list of 11 measures you should take to prevent the

In 1793 a prompt fever ran through the urbanization of Philadelphia like the swiftest track contestant in the universe. That pyrexia was called yellow fever. If you had a vile case of yellow fever you had the choice of a French physician or an American physician to treat you.Yellow fever blew in Philadelphia by the nonresident freights. It happened in the burning, arid like the inhabited in the summer of 1793. If you got taint by yellow fever you must have gotten dab by negligible, hypersonic , uproarious mites. Grievously 2,000 to 5,000 vital forces croak because of this slayer contagion.

In conclusion, I have explored some different sides of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793 and their effects. In late September, the rainy and cloudy weather stopped the virus from spreading. More than five thousand people died because of this disaster. For a long time nothing could be done other than furnishing coffins for the dead and men to bury them. From my point of view, the government should have established more hospitals and medical centers at that time and should have had a specific strategy to deal with that

You also switch classes, every period you have a different teacher. In 6th grade the teachers are Mr. Davies, Mr Tucker, Mrs. Haas, and Dr. Taylor. We learn various things during a school day. Let’s start off with Science with Mr. Davies; so far we have mostly learned about weather. Such as ocean currents, the water cycle, and hurricanes and tornadoes. We have done a project on tornadoes or hurricanes. Additionally we have Following that in language art we are reading great books like Fever 1793, and Number of the Stars. As we read the books we work on a compare and contrast essay. For fever 1793 we compared and contrasted the French and the Philadelphia doctors and on the book Number of the Stars we compared and contrasted a poem to a life

Fever 1793 is a historical fiction novel written by Laurie Halse Anderson that describes how Yellow Fever affected lives of everybody during the three months of sickness and panic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Life today is more straightforward than it was in 1793 because of the technology. Fever 1793 is a story about a young girl, Matilda “Mattie” Cook, who faces challenges surviving in a Yellow Fever- struck city (Philadelphia). Mattie loses her grandfather on her journey of survival and her mother is nowhere to be seen, leaving Mattie to grow up and survive her journey alone. If the story was taking place in modern times, Mattie and the rest of Philadelphia would not struggle as much as they did in the story. The modern day technology that is here today allows this generation to progress through life smoother. Today’s technology would have a significant, positive impact on the community during 1793. If the people of Philadelphia had the knowledge of symptoms and treatments of Yellow Fever, they would have known for sure if the fever was occurring in the beginning and they would have also known how the fever was to

Everyone can relate to getting sick and having to go to the doctors and going to pick up medicine at a pharmacist.But what you might not know is how people with illnesses or some sick symptoms were treated in the Medieval days.Receiving medication is something a bit different.People in Medieval times would go to the doctors. However the doctors had extremely limited knowledge and really did not know what caused illnesses.It was hard enough for ordinary poorer people or people who did not live in big main towns to get medical help.They had a difficult time for access doctors Those who were in need of medical assistance in those situations may have and ask local people who had medical knowledge.Most people when they had minor symptoms and nothing to serious hat required medical assistance,Such as upset stomachs,headaches,eye problems,exd.They Would go to the apothecary and there they would be given mixtures of