Outbreak in Washington, D.C.
Subtitle: the 1857 mystery of the National Hotel disease
By: Kerry Walters
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781626196384
Subjects: Epidemics; History; Curiosities and wonders; Public health; Panic; Conspiracies; Social conditions; National Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
Other titles: Outbreak in Washington, DC
Description: "Discover the history of a mysterious disease that struck the National Hotel in 1857"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Panic in Washington; title: I. An Acrimonious Year; title: Slavery and Westward Expansion; title: The Crisis Worsens; title: The 1856 Campaign; title: II. A City of Contrasts; title: City of Magnificent Intentions; title: City of Violence; title: City of Filth; title: The National Hotel; title: III. A Stricken President-Elect; title: "Why, I have been poisoned!"; title: Return to the National Hotel; title: Buchanan's Health; title: Off His Game; title: A Bad Start; title: IV. A National Panic; title: The Poison Hypothesis; title: The Miasma Hypothesis; title: The Final Verdict; title: V. The Allure of Conspiracy; title: The Paranoid Style; title: The Slave Power Conspiracy; title: The Abolitionist Conspiracy; title: The Jesuit Conspiracy; title: A Last Word; title: Appendix: Period Coverage of the National Hotel Disease.