Who Was Stephen Girard Fever 1793?
Who Was Stephen Girard Fever 1793? Girard was a tireless leader in the efforts to contain and combat the yellow fever epidemics that hit Philadelphia in 1793, 1797-98, 1802, and 1820. Nineteenth-century medicine was all but helpless against the terrifying disease, which killed 5,000 city residents in 1793 alone. Who is Girard in Fever 1793?