1. Yellow Fever Fiend.
- Author
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ROBERTS, JACOB
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YELLOW fever treatment , *CONFEDERATION of states , *POLICE , *ARREST , *WAR - Abstract
The article focuses on the contribution of Luke Pryor Blackburn, an American physician and politician from Kentucky, in the treatment of yellow fever epidemics. Topics include his duties to the Confederacy, a government set up by seven slave states of the U.S. in 1861, his work with Colonel Jacob Thompson and Godfrey Joseph Hyams, a shoemaker from Arkansas, to treat the yellow fever and his arrest by Canadian police in May 1865 for plotting a war against the U.S.
- Published
- 2014