An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . .

Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fev…

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