Yellow Fever Book Summary. While at first bush hill was dangerous, stephen girard—a wealthy french merchant—takes over the makeshift hospital and staffs it with french doctors. In the last half of the nineteenth century, yellow fever plagued the american south.
Margaret humphreys explores the ways in which this tropical disease hampered commerce, frustrated the scientific community, and eventually galvanized local and federal authorities into American daguerreian, claude marchand, who captured, using this new art form, the mid 1840's yellow fever epidemics that raged. Just as jeannine is picking a fight with mattie by insulting the cook coffeehouse, colette abruptly collapses from yellow fever.
It traces the appropriation of yellow fever to legitimize the young nation and its embeddedness in discourses of race and gender from the late 18th until the end of the 19th century.
Matilda awakens to discover she has yellow fever and is in bush hill, a former mansion repurposed as a hospital for fever victims. American daguerreian, claude marchand, who captured, using this new art form, the mid 1840's yellow fever epidemics that raged. While at first bush hill was dangerous, stephen girard—a wealthy french merchant—takes over the makeshift hospital and staffs it with french doctors. Plot summary, synopsis, and more.