Yellow Fever

S.L. Kotar of St. Louis has been writing (together with J.E. Gessler) for more than four decades, beginning with scripts for television’s Gunsmoke. The late J.E. Gessler lived in St. Louis.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentPreface1. Yellow Fever: A Perspective2. The Early Colonial Period3. A Question of Quarantine4. The American Plague5. “Particulars of the Plague in Philadelphia”6. Most Unhappy Consequences7. The Controversies of Yellow Fever Continue to Rage8. The “Great Epidemic” of 17989. Is Yellow Fever More Deadly Than the Plague?10. The Repository of Knowledge11. Daily Mortality Is Now More Considerable12. The Baneful Effects of Yellow Fever13. Corpses Still Animated: Yellow Fever, 1820–182914. “All the evils which hell may contain”15. The “Dead Book”16. New Orleans: A City of Desolation17. “To the manor born”18. The “Quarantine War” and the “Quarantine Armada”19. Deluge of Yellow Fever in the South and Worldwide Epidemics20. The American ­Un-Civil War Period, 1860–186621. Holding On Until the Other Jack (Frost) Says “Enough!”22. I Am “writing from the city of the dead”23. Quarantine and Avarice, 1870–187324. “Falling Like Leaves”25. “The grim monster still on his pathway”: The Outbreaks of 187826. “We are almost entirely ignorant”27. Mosquitoes and Germ Theories28. Panama and Nicaragua: Two Canals, Two Views29. Cuba and the “Patriotic Disease”30. After War: Science and Sanitation31. Into the 20th Century32. Panama!33. “America to Slay the World’s Disease Germs”34. Taking Steps Against a Deadly EnemyGlossaryChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“If the reader ever had any questions about the dread disease, Yellow Fever, this is the book that has the answers...thorough...contains valuable information and presents the many controversies that existed as the disease was being understood and eliminated”—M.G. Paregian, Publisher.