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lilterrier21
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What were treatments for yellow fever in 1793?

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Posted by lilterrier21 on Friday May 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM.

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  1. mbomengen
    mrsmonica Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Yellow fever is incurable and can only be prevented via vaccination. In 1793, those who could afford to left the cities to avoid outbreaks. For the unfortunate victims of the disease, treatments included bed rest, efforts to purify the air, and quarantine. Dr. Benjamin Rush recorded his unsuccessful efforts to treat yellow fever, which included:

    administering shaved tree bark with wine, brandy, and aromatics such as ginger or cinnamon, as well sweating the fever out by coating a patient's body with a thick salve of herbs and chemicals, and he even tried wrapping the whole body in a blanket of warm vinegar.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fever_Epidemic_of_1793

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    Posted by mrsmonica on Saturday May 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM

  2. stevesgirl11
    stevesgirl11 Student
    College - Senior

    there was nott just onee. 

    there was bed rest, quarantine, and also, they tried to purify the air. most doctors wrapped the body in a blanket soaked in vinager

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    Posted by stevesgirl11 on Thursday November 19, 2009 at 4:55 AM