02008cam a2200313 i 4500 549621342 TxAuBib 20220301120000.0 070321s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780425217757 trade pbk. [dollar]15.00 0425217752 trade pbk. [dollar]15.00 (OCoLC)148907338 TxAuBib rda Crosby, Molly Caldwell. The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history / Molly Caldwell Crosby. Berkley trade pbk. ed. New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 2007. viii, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : Berkley Books, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-354) and index. The American plague -- Memphis, 1878. Carnival ; Bright canary yellow ; The doctors ; A city of corpses ; The destroying angel ; Greatly exaggerated ; The Havana Commission ; Reparations -- Cuba, 1900. A splendid little war ; Siboney ; An unlikely hero ; A meeting of minds ; The Yellow Fever Commission ; Insects ; Vivisection ; Did the mosquito do it? ; Guinea pig no. 1 ; Camp Lazear ; A new century ; Blood ; The etiology of yellow fever ; Retribution ; The mosquito -- United States, present day. Epidemic ; A return to Africa ; The vaccine ; History repeats itself ; Epilogue : Elmwood. Traces the impact on American history of yellow fever from the mid-seventeenth century onward, examining in particular the near-destruction of Memphis from the disease and the efforts of four men to combat the deadly scourge. 20220301. Yellow fever History. Yellow fever Tennessee Memphis History.