Plague among the magnolias : the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi / Deanne Stephens Nuwer.

  • Nuwer, Deanne.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Also known as

1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi

Publication/Creation

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xv, 188 pages : map ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index.

Contents

Mississippi in the 1870s -- Yellow fever's causes, symptoms, and treatments -- The fever arrives -- Responses to yellow fever -- The human suffering -- Mississippi and the affirmation of antebellum values -- Yellow fever departs -- Conclusion.

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    History of Medicine
    FU.669.AA8
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  • 9780817316532
  • 0817316531
  • 9780817382445
  • 0817382445