Fever Season: The Epidemic of 1878 That Almost Destroyed Memphis, and the People who Saved It by Jeanette Keith

Fever Season: The Epidemic of 1878 That Almost Destroyed Memphis, and the People who Saved It

Jeanette Keith

320 pages • 2012

1 edition

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While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more...

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