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Yellow Fever on Galveston Island [EPUB ebook]

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Jan Johnson provides a definitive account of Galveston’s fight against outbreaks of Yellow Fever, which transformed an island paradise into the City of Dreadful Death.In the summer of Galveston’s founding year, a mysterious malady accompanied by black vomit descended upon the inhabitants. Names for the devastating plague came quick and fast as the body count rose. Saffron Scourge. Bronze John. Yellow Jack. Yellow Fever. The disease’s cause and cure remained elusive, as did the med...

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781439675427 ● Publisher Arcadia Publishing Inc. ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8640734 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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