ext_28735 ([identity profile] brdgt.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] jackshoegazer 2006-06-01 03:52 pm (UTC)

It's sort of where the history of US medicine begins (well, the smallpox inoculation controversy of 1721 may come first), but the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever#Philadelphia:_1793) is really important in the whole miasma debate.

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