Saturday 11 March 2017

Explain the differences between Dr. Deveze and Dr. Rush and how they treat Yellow Fever patients in Fever 1793.

Dr.
Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a prominent doctor in
Philadelphia in 1793.  He believed that Yellow Fever could best be cured by ridding the body of
toxins that had collected in the blood, and espoused a very aggressive treatment of bleeding and
purging for his patients.  Dr. Jean Deveze, a refugee from Santo Domingo, was the primary
physician in the asylum for the sick established by Stephen Girard, a French-born merchant.  Dr.
Deveze disagreed with Rush's practices, and treated his patients by...

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