In the book Fever 1793 there are many examples of historically accurate technology, events, and culture. This book is set in Philadelphia in the year 1793. The protagonist in this story is a teenage girl named Mattie Cook. Her family owns a Coffee shop in town. Many people are coming to their coffee shop because it is far away from the Wharf, where several dozen people have died from Yellow Fever. When Mattie’s mother catches the fever she orders Mattie and Mattie’s grandfather to go to the country so that they won't get sick. Throughout the rest of the story Mattie and her grandfather will go through tough times but Mattie will persevere and survive the fever to run the coffee house with her best friend Eliza. In this story one of the examples of historically accurate events is the outbreak of yellow fever in 1793. That event really did happen and Philadelphia was a hotspot for that disease at that time. The medical technology was not the best back in those times so some of the ways that they tried to treat the disease were unsanitary. They were also not aware of how the disease was spreading so they did not think to stop the mosquitos that were swarming around and carrying the disease. One of the historically accurate technologies in this story was the wagon that Mattie and her grandfather rode into …show more content…
Mattie’s family ran a coffeehouse so this was fitting for the time period that this story was set in. If the coffeehouse was not owned by the Cooks, then Mattie would not have had anything to come back to once the fever had gone away. She would have been a homeless teenage girl with no one to be by her side. The coffeehouse was also important because that is where a lot of the controversy about the fever went down. Without that controversy Mattie’s mother might not have sent her into the country. This could have had an effect on when and where Mattie would catch the fever or if she would catch it at
Since Plagues and Peoples covers several subjects of knowledge, he helps the reader understand key concepts by fully explaining parasitism and its dependence on humans and animals. People in the field of history, which make up a majority of this books audience, would need more insight into epidemiology to grasp its key concepts. It would not be likely for a historian to be knowledgeable in a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in populations.
Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction story Fever 1793 takes place in Philadelphia. Mattie is a fictional character along with Mother and Grandfather. In the story Mattie learns how to deal with all the stumbling blocks that happen throughout the story. She has to deal with these different situations through this terrible epidemic yellow fever. Through all of the difficult times that Mattie has gone through she realizes that those that stuck by her side are like family. By using imagery and character development Laurie Halse Anderson creates the lesson that one does not have to be related by blood to be family.
In the book Fever 1793 ,by Laurie Halse Anderson, the doctors have many disagreements on how to treat patients with Yellow Fever. In the present day some doctors may still disagree on many things. Like treatments, causes of diseases, and what kind of diseases.
What do we learn about life in the 18th century and how successfully does the writer convey this information whilst telling us a good story?
Have you ever lost something in life? Mattie the main character in Fever 1793 has lost a lot. She has shown how strong she has been throughout the book. She shows us how strength is the main theme in this book. She shows you that this gives you a reason to never give up. It helps you get through hard times, and shows you who you really are.
Philadelphia in 1793 was not so good, it was actually a very horrible time,many people died,not many people lived.5,000 people were actually listed in the official register of deaths between August 1 and November 9.Many people were extremely scared that them or someone that they loved would die.They would bury beds into the ground and take them out hoping they would be clean of disease.The people would even shoot
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a true story of terrifying outbreak of cholera and how Dr. John Snow and reverend Henry Whitehead uses their knowledge of disease to find out how prevalent over the whole country, London. The disease may be unfamiliar to them but not common to the millions of people around the country, whose living conditions and sanitation processes are not as good or advanced as ours. The story reflects the world through the wide varieties of disciplines, including history, science and culture, etc. During the Victorian era, England’s class distinctions and prejudices has affected the people’s understanding of the bad science behind the cholera through prejudices and it’s miasma theory which leads them to cause changes in
In Philadelphia 1793 it was very disastrous. With a population of approximately 55,000 in 1793. Philadelphia was America's largest city. There was this epidemic. It was spread throughout Philadelphia. The epidemic is called yellow fever. Yellow fever is known for bringing on a characteristic yellow tinge to the eyes and skin.During the epidemic 5,000 or more people were listed in the official register of death between August 1st and November 9th. That was by the time it ended. It was a viral disease that began with muscle pain. The Flavivirus causes yellow fever. It is transmitted when an infected female mosquito bites you. Fortunately in the United States we do not have the yellow fever disease. You only need the yellow
There are two books I will be comparing, Fever 1793 and The Girl Who Owned a City. The main characters are Matty, a girl in 1973, and Lisa, a futuristic character.They are alike in many ways. They are also quite different. They are both about the same age, though Lisa might be a little younger.
The total picture that emerges from the book is that each individual was naive, transportation was slow, and the streets were mostly always busy. There were rich people, people who had big dreams, and around this time people were being creative and inventing new things. One of the things invented during this time was the typewriter. The fair, which was being built during this time lured in thousand of people. Since the city became really big, industries and business began to increase.
This book follows an esteemed doctor and a local clergyman who, together, are the heart of an investigation to solve the mystery of the cholera epidemic. In 1854 London was ravaged by a terrible outbreak of cholera, where within the span of mere weeks over five hundred people in the Soho district died. London, at the time, was a city of around two and a half million people, all crammed into a small area with no system for sewage removal. With overflowing cesspools, improper drainage of all the human and animal waste, and no system for guaranteed clean water, the people of London were in a bad state. They were essentially dumping all of their feces into their drinking water supply, a perfect environment for cholera to thrive.
Yellow fever is a monster to society . I am a first year physician that volunteered to help cure with the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. I am required to report back to King George III. My job is to figure out what treatment is better, the Philadelphia treatment or the French treatment. It happened in 1793 when lots of people died. Thousands of people died from the yellow fever. Also the French treatment for yellow fever has similarities and differences, and the Philadelphia treatment for yellow fever has similarities and differences to.
Although more prevalent amongst the working class, tuberculosis and typhus fever were contracted by all populations in Victorian England. People of the upper and middle classes could afford treatment while the poor were often subjected to unsanitary, disease-ridden living conditions. Charity schools were common places of infection due to inedible food and a vulnerability to contagion, i.e., the necessity of sharing beds and drinking from a common cup. F.B. Smith confirms the increased likelihood of disease within charity schools in his book The Retreat of Tuberculosis. He states "Charity school children displayed above average rates (of tuberculosis) even though the badly affected individuals usually were excluded" (7). Tuberculosis and typhus fever outbreaks, increased significantly in the nineteenth century due to overcrowding, poor housing conditions, low wages and standards of nutrition, ignorance, and lack of effective medical treatment.
Created much like a novel, "Hot House" follows a few characters whose lives are explained over the course of two years by Pete Earley, a reporter, whom all but lived in Leavenworth prison. Earley came and went into the prison from July 1987 until July 1989, with complete freedom, day or night, and was given the permission to talk to anyone. He was offered protection by the guards and the warden of Leavenworth but he refused it. Earley had one simple idea; he hoped to understand the routine of the inmates, guards, and the institution itself by observing them physically rather than just following the abnormal events in the prison. Each of the prisoners Earley talked to had very different backgrounds with very different stories. Not only does
You have to stick up for yourself and be brave if you want to accomplish anything, and if you don't then you will never be happy. For example, in the book Fever 1793, the character Mattie is risking to take the little girl Nell. She is risking to take Nell because she could of got yellow fever. She was being brave because she wanted to help Nell because her mother has passed and Mattie didn't just want to leave her. After a while, Mattie is happy that she took Nell because they become really good friends. If she would of never been brave to take Nell, then she would have been upset with herself. So Mattie was being brave by helping Nell and she was happy that she helped her.