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What is the problem and solution in Fever 1793?

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What is the problem and solution in Fever 1793?

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pmiranda2857 Teacher High School – 10th Grade Editor Debater $(document).ready(function() { $(‘a.toggle_expert_titles’).click(function() { $(‘#show_expert_titles’).toggle(); return false; }); }); The problem in the book Fever 1793 is the outbreak of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in the year 1793. This epidemic infected and killed about 10% of the population, which at the time was about 40,000, so 4,000 people died from the fever. At the time, people, even doctors did not really know how to treat the disease. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the most noted doctors in Philadelphia, he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was using the antiquated method of bleeding patients. This process, where a patient suffering from Yellow Fever, weak and drained from the disease, required a doctor to cut the vein of the person and have their blood drip into a bowl until the doctor thought that enough of the disease was removed from the person. Unfortunately this method killed more people than it s

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