Plague among the magnolias
Subtitle: the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi
By: Deanne Stephens Nuwer.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817316532; 9780817382445
Subjects: Yellow fever -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.; Yellow Fever -- history -- Mississippi.; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Mississippi.; History, 19th Century -- Mississippi.; Public Health Practice -- history -- Mississippi.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mississippi in the 1870s; title: Yellow fever's causes, symptoms, and treatments; title: The fever arrives; title: Responses to yellow fever; title: The human suffering; title: Mississippi and the affirmation of antebellum values; title: Yellow fever departs.