The Yellow Fever Epidemic.

The Mississippi Valley's great yellow fever epidemic of 1878

Thomson's anti-professionalism and recommended a broader range of botanicals. Beach taught his system to medical students and physicians, and in 1830 some of the latter opened a medical school that moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where it received a state charter as the Eclectic Medical Institute in 1845. Haller suggests that the word "eclectic" was chosen in order to identify the movement with "Ame...

A Dublin observer of the Lisbon yellow fever epidemic.

The history of yellow fever is discussed with relevance to the Lisbon epidemic of 1857. Robert S.D. Lyons, professor of medicine at the Catholic University Medical School in Dublin, was given leave by the rector to investigate its pathology and set off for Portugal in November. He performed autopsies and studied possible environmental factors, with negative results. The professor's "prolonged a...

The Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans in 1905

As is well known, the foundation of exact yellow fever prophylaxis was laid in June, 1900, by Army Surgeons Reed, Carroll, Agramonte, and Lazear, who were sent to Cuba to study yellow fever. In Havana, these observers found that already Dr. C. J. Finlay had, as early as 1881, enunciated the theory in no uncertain manner of the propagation of yellow fever by the mosquito; and influenced both by ...

The Yellow Fever Initiative

Yellow fever.

1MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. MSc in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). PhD in Medicine – Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, FMUSP. Fellow American College of Physicians, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2MD, Infectious Disease Specialist, Hospital Israelit...