The American Plague Third Journal entry

Pg 46-69
Five things I understand
1. The death of people on the Golden grow ship were blamed on overheating when the cause was actually the yellow fever.
2. Mrs. Kate Bionda was the first case of yellow fever that was actually reported.
3. Many people fled the city of Memphis. The rich would leave and leave everything in order to get away from the yellow fever. In July of that year, the city had a population of 47,000 and by September, 19,000 remained and 17,000 of them had yellow fever.
4. Contance and Thecla were nuns that had come to the city of Memphis to try and help many people. They had already become immune to the disease. Both of them came down with the yellow fever.
5. Armstrong was a physician when there was the epidemic of yellow fever. Physicians wee not seen as important people back then. They were not required to have an education or to have graduated from college. Even when there was pregnancy, the midwives were usually the ones to handle the situation.
Four Questions I have
1. Did the president ever try to help the people?
2. Was it really necessary to keep the people of Memphis away from everyone else?
3. If someone were to get yellow fever today, how would they be treated?
4. Would the government put someone in quarantine if they were to have a contagious disease that isn’t easily cured?
Three Vocabularies
1. Hemorrhaging pg48: Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels
2. Unfurling pg 53: unroll, unfold,
3. Stagnant pg 55: Sluggish
Two literally elements
1. “Dust from the lime blew in the air, bone colored and sifted fine as flour” (Crosby 49). This is a simile since it is comparing something using liker or as.
2. “Spectacular sun, a blood orange setting over the Mississippi” (Crosby 57). This is personification. Blood is a characteristic of a living thing and in this quote it is being used for the color that it has.
One summary sentence1. On this entry the author goes into more detail about the people that suffered from the yellow fever and how hard it was to help the