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Keith, Jeanette.
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Yellow fever -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Epidemics -- Social aspects -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Medical personnel -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
Journalists -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Fever season : the story of a terrifying epidemic and the people who saved a city / Jeanette Keith.
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Keith, Jeanette.
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
Subjects
Yellow fever -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Epidemics -- Social aspects -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 19th century.
Medical personnel -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
Journalists -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781608192229 (hbk.) :
1608192229 (hbk.)
Description:
261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Contents:
Bluff City Panorama -- Yellow Jack -- Siege -- The Destroying Angel -- The Arithmetic of Sorrow -- A Contagion of Kindness -- Lost Graves -- After the Fever -- Epilogue.
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Summary:
An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.
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