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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:32:56 -0800
- Reply-To: Joan Bishop <joan@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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- From: Joan Bishop <joan@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- Comments: To: Tom Lincoln <lincoln@iris.rand.org>
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- Wow, that is interesting, I have a friend who is descended from Dr.
- Benjamin Rush. I'll have to tell her about that, but I bet she already knows.
- Mosquito borne diseases were quite common in that era weren't they? I
- read about fevers abounding around the Great Lakes region. I also read in
- a book about Faulkner the annual threat of rabid wild dogs and how the
- kids would have to stay inside during that time.
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- We now have a new problem with TB when we thought we had gotten rid of
- that scourge. I know people who were put in sanitoriums and the idea that
- ide and cold baths would cure them and they mostly killed them. My
- ex-step mother tells about the years she spent in one in California in the
- mountains and how she was so despondent when they had to send her back again.
- She had to leave her kids with relatives who were not kind to them and in
- later years contributed to a son's mental illness. A terrible price to pay!
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- I better stop rambling on, but thanks for your information.
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- Joan
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