by Jim Murphy
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Carroll, James, [>], [>]
Carson, Rachel, [>]
Cathrall, Isaac, [>]–[>], [>]
chloroquine, [>]
choler, [>]
Clarkson, Matthew, [>], [>]
and city committee, [>]–[>], [>]
and Free African Society, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
public statements by, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
responsibilities of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
staying in the city, [>]–[>]
Cobbett, William, [>]–[>], [>]
College of Physicians, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Congress, U.S.:
and mosquito control, [>]–[>]
site of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Constitution, U.S., [>]–[>]
Cornwallis, Gen. Charles, [>]
Cuba, U.S. Army in, [>]
Currie, William, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Daffey’s Elixir, [>]
D’Antonio, Michael, [>]
Dawson, Joshua, [>], [>]
DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), [>]–[>]
Deforest, Henry, [>]
Delaware River, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Denny, Mary, [>]
Denny, Richard, [>], [>]
Description of the Malignant, Infectious Fever . . . (Currie), [>]
Deshler, David, [>], [>]
Devèze, Jean, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
disease:
causes of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
connection between insects and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
cures for, [>]
drug-resistant, [>]
epidemic pattern of, [>]
foreign sources of, [>], [>]
immunity to, [>]–[>]
and public health codes, [>]
recurrence of, [>]
spread of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
summer fevers, [>], [>]
and water systems, [>]–[>]
see also yellow fever
Drinker, Elizabeth, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Duffield, Benjamin, [>]
Eldridge, Isaac, [>]–[>]
encephalitis, [>]
England, Black Plague in, [>]
epidemics, see disease
Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
federal government:
constitutional crisis in, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
halt of, [>]
inadequate staffing of, [>], [>]
location of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
president absent from, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
and street riots, [>]
summer White House, [>]
Finlay, Carlos, [>], [>], [>]
fires, [>]
Flickwir, David, [>]
folk tales, [>]
formaldehyde, [>]
Foulke, John, [>]–[>]
France:
cholera epidemic in, [>]
and Panama Canal, [>]
and revolutions, [>]–[>], [>]
Free African Society, [>]–[>]
disease caught by members of, [>], [>], [>]
financial losses of, [>]
help requested from, [>], [>], [>]
insulted in Carey’s book, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
and Narrative, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
and racism, [>]–[>], [>]
and resistance to disease, [>]–[>]
self-worth expressed by, [>]–[>]
volunteers from, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
“French cure,” [>]
French Revolution, [>]–[>], [>]
Freneau, Philip, [>], [>]
Friends’ Alms House, [>]
Frosch, Paul, [>]
Fry, Joseph, [>]
Gebler, Godfrey, [>]
Genêt, Edmond Charles, [>], [>], [>]
Germantown, Pennsylvania, government offices in, [>], [>]–[>] [>]
Girard, Stephen, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Gray, William, [>], [>]
Griffitts, Samuel, [>], [>]
Grubb, Widow, [>]
Guardians of the Poor, [>]–[>], [>], [>],
Gubler, Duane, [>]
Haiti, slave revolt in, [>]
Hamilton, Alexander, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Hamilton, William, [>], [>]
Hardie, James, [>], [>]
Harper’s Weekly, [>]
Havana, Cuba, mosquitoes in, [>], [>], [>]
Hazard, Ebenezer, [>]
Helm, Peter, [>]–[>], [>]
Helmuth, Rev. J. Henry C., [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Heston, Isaac, [>], [>]–[>]
Hiltzheimer, Jacob, [>]
Hodge, Hugh, [>], [>]–[>]
humors, [>], [>]
immigrants, [>]–[>]
insects, diseases caused by, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Israel, Israel, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Jefferson, Thomas, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Jones, Absalom, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Knox, Henry, [>], [>]
Koch, Robert, [>]
Kosciusko, Thaddeus, letter from, [>]
Kuhn, Adam, [>]
LaCrosse encephalitis, [>]
Latrobe, Benjamin, [>]
Lazear, Jesse, [>]–[>]
Lear, Tobias, [>], [>]
LeClerc, Charles, [>]
Lee, Thomas Sim, [>]–[>]
LeMaigre, Catherine, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
LeMaigre, Peter, [>]
Letchworth, John, [>]–[>]
Lewis, William, [>]
Löffler, Friedrich, [>]
Louis XVI, king of France, [>], [>]
Louisiana Purchase, [>]
Lownes, Caleb, [>]
Madison, Dolley Payne Todd, [>]–[>], [>]
Madison, James, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
malaria, [>], [>], [>]
malathion, [>]
Manhattan, epidemics in, [>]
Marine Quarantine Hospital, Staten Island, [>]–[>], [>]
Marotel, Gabriel, [>], [>]
medicine, early years of, [>]
mercury (calomel), [>], [>], [>]
Mifflin, Thomas, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Mitchell, John, [>]
monkeys, tree-dwelling, [>], [>]
Monroe, James, [>]
Moravian congregation, [>]
Morgan, Benjamin R., [>]–[>]
Morris, Robert, home of, [>]–[>], [>]
mosquitoes, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Aedes aegypti, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Anopheles species of, [>]
Asian tiger, [>]
breeding grounds for, [>]–[>]
experiments with, [>]–[>]
measures for control of, [>]–[>], [>]
pesticide-resistant, [>]–[>]
process of infection by, [>], [>]
mythology, [>]
Napoleon Bonaparte, [>]
Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People. . . (Jones and Allen), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Nassy, David, [>]
National Gazette, [>], [>]
nature, healing power of, [>], [>]
Neutrality Act, [>], [>], [>]
New York, epidemics in, [>]
Nott, Josiah, [>]–[>], [>]
oath of allegiance, [>]
Orphan Committee, [>]
Overseers and Guardians of the Poor, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Panama Canal, [>]–[>], [>]
Pan American Health Organization, [>]
Pan American Sanitary Bureau, [>]
Parkinson, Mrs. Richard, [>]
Parliament, English, [>]
Pasteur, Louis, [>]
Peale, Charles Willson, [>], [>]
Pennsylvania:
elections in, [>]–[>]
government adjourned in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
government changes in, [>]
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br /> oath of allegiance in, [>]
state legislature of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Pennsylvania Hospital, [>]
permethrin, [>]
pesticides, [>]–[>], [>]
“Pestilence” (Freneau), [>]–[>]
petechiae, [>], [>]
Philadelphia:
alleys of, [>], [>]
Arch Street dock, [>], [>]
beer parlors and taverns in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
city government at a standstill in, [>]–[>]
cleanup in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
committee government of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Congress Hall in, [>]
disease in, see yellow fever
disorder in, [>], [>], [>]
effects of disease on, [>]–[>]
escape from, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
federal government in, see federal government
financial relief for, [>]
food shortages in, [>], [>]
incomes in, [>]
letters from, [>]
Lombard Street, [>]
map, [>]
Market Street, [>]
meteorite fallen on, [>]
newspapers in, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
poor people in, [>], [>]–[>]
recovery of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
rents raised in, [>], [>]
ships arriving in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
shut off from other towns, [>], [>]
slaves in, [>], [>]
state house in, [>]
tent encampments near, [>]–[>]
Washington’s inspection of, [>]–[>]
Water Street area, [>], [>]
water system of, [>]–[>], [>]
Philadelphia Directory and Register, 1793 (Hardie), [>]
phlebotomy, [>]
phlegm, [>]
Pickering, Timothy, [>], [>]
Piercy, Christian, [>]–[>]
Porcupine’s Gazette, The, [>], [>]
Potter, Nathaniel, [>]
Powel, Samuel, [>]
privateers, [>], [>]–[>]
Proclamation of Neutrality, [>], [>], [>]
Prusia, Caty, [>]
public health codes, [>]
purges, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Quakers, [>]
quarantine, rules of, [>]
quarantine act, [>]
quinine, [>]
Randolph, Edmund, [>], [>], [>]
Reed, Walter, [>], [>]–[>]
Ricketts, John Bill, [>]–[>]
Ricketts’ Circus, [>]–[>], [>]
Rush, Benjamin, [>], [>], [>], [>]
books by, [>], [>]
cures recommended by, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
diagnosis by, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
disease caught by, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
early symptoms seen by, [>], [>]
escape urged by, [>], [>]
and Free African Society, [>]–[>], [>]
landlord of, [>]
and LeMaigre case, [>]–[>]
letters to his wife, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
and opposing views, [>], [>]–[>]
political views of, [>]
recovery of, [>]
reputation of, [>], [>]–[>]
Rush, Rebecca, [>]
Santo Domingo:
cargo from, [>]–[>]
refugees from, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Schmidt, Rev. John, [>]
Schuylkill River, [>], [>], [>]
Sevin, [>]
sewers (“sinks”), [>]–[>]
Sharswood, James, [>]
Shewell, Mary, [>]
Short Account of the Malignant Fever . . . (Carey), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Silent Spring (Carson), [>]
Spanish-American War, [>]
Spielman, Andrew, [>]–[>]
Stearns, Samuel, [>]
street riots, [>]
sweating, [>], [>]
Taylor, Rayner, [>]
teas, herb, [>]
“Ten-and-Fifteen” purge, [>]–[>]
tobacco, [>], [>]
Toussaint L’Ouverture, [>]
vaccines, [>], [>]
Vietnam War, disease in, [>]
vinegar, [>], [>], [>]
viruses, [>], [>], [>]
vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature), [>]
Washington, George, [>]–[>]
and federal government, [>]–[>], [>]
leaving Philadelphia, [>], [>], [>], [>]
neutrality policy of, [>], [>], [>]
Philadelphia inspection by, [>]–[>]
Washington, Martha, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
water system, first municipal, [>]–[>], [>]
Weatherby, Samuel, [>]
West Nile encephalitis, [>]
Weyman, John, [>]
Wharton, Isaac, [>]
White House, summer, [>]
Winchester, Elhanan, [>]
Wolcott, Oliver, [>], [>]
yellow fever:
advanced symptoms of, [>]–[>], [>]
books about, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
cause of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
city improvements as result of, [>]–[>]
control of, [>]
cures recommended for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
deaths from, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
decline of cases, [>]–[>], [>]
diagnosis of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
doctors’ denial of, [>]–[>]
early symptoms of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
epidemics in other cities of, [>], [>], [>]
no cure for, [>]–[>]
process of infection in, [>], [>]
recurrence of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
spread of, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
survivors of, [>]–[>]
About the Author
JIM MURPHY has written more than twenty-five books for young people. In addition to the Newbery Honor, which he received for The Great Fire (Scholastic), he has won many other awards, including the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor. He is also the two-time winner of both the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award. His Clarion titles include The Boys’ War, Across America on the Emigrant Train, A Young Patriot, Pick & Shovel Poet, and Invincible Microbe.
Mr. Murphy lives with his family in Maplewood, New Jersey.