National Library of Medicine
| Dr. Alexander
Baron, National Library of Medicine |
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| I’d like you to
listen to the words of Dr. Alexander Baron of Charleston. The yellow
fever epidemic of 1817 killed fourteen of the sixteen patients Dr. Baron was
treating: |
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| “I wish no person would send for me,
for I know nothing of this disease and am as ignorant as a child unborn - for
let me do as I will - puke, purge or bleed - still they all die.” |
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| Waring,Joseph I. A
History of Medicine in South Carolina, 1825-1900. Columbia, SC: South
Carolina Medical Association, 1967. |
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