The American plague
Subtitle: the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history
By: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780425212028
Subjects: Yellow fever -- History; Yellow fever -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History
Description: Traces the impact on American history of yellow fever from the mid-seventeenth century onward, examining in particular the near-destruction of Memphis from the disease and the efforts of four men to combat the deadly scourge.
Notes: Map on lining papers

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index
Table of contents: title: I: The American plague; title: II: Memphis, 1878; title: Carnival; title: Bright canary yellow; title: The doctors; title: A city of corpses; title: The destroying angel; title: Greatly exaggerated; title: The Havana commission; title: Reparations; title: III: Cuba, 1900; title: A splendid little war; title: Siboney; title: An unlikely hero; title: A meeting of minds; title: The yellow fever commission; title: Insects; title: Vivisection; title: Did the mosquito do it?; title: Guinea pig no. 1; title: Camp Lazear; title: A new century; title: Blood; title: The etiology of yellow fever; title: Retribution; title: The mosquito; title: IV: United States, present day; title: Epidemic; title: A return to Africa; title: The vaccine; title: History repeats itself; title: Elmwood