Career
What are bed clothes?
Bed clothes are bed sheets
What is a Good Samaritan
A Good Samaritan is a kind-hearted person.
What is a steam engine pump
Engine that produces rotation from steam
Who did Charles Biddle insist died?
Only foreigners died from yellow fever.
Who did Dolley Pagne Todd marry?
James Madison
What does it mean to be tarred and feathered
To be covered in tar to stick feathers to you as a type of torture
A doorkeeper was put in place so determined patients wouldn’t do what?
A doorkeeper was put in place so delirious patients wouldn’t leave.
What is the practice of bloodletting?
The practice of bloodletting is when you draw blood to try and cure a illness.
Philip Freneau was the editor for what paper?
Editor for the National Gazette
What was Israel Israel’s main priority?
Take care of the orphans.
What is a Mad Hatter
Person who got mercury poisoning from their hat
Why was a white flag flown on Bush Hill?
To show that there was no more sick people there.
What was ten and ten?
Ten and ten was a treatment where you would swallow mercury and 10 grains of jalap.
Clarkson set up a committee of how many people to help run the city?
Committee of 26 people aside from himself to help run the city
What did landlords do to tenants?
Evicted the tenants or raised the rent.
What did lamplighters do?
People hired to light the street lamps at night
Where did James Madison and Tom Monroe sleep?
Slept on wooden benches in taverns.
Rush believed the human body held how much blood?
Rush believed that the human body held 25 pounds of blood.
How much money did Mayor Clarkson and the committee spend on fighting yellow fever?
$37,647.19
What was the Black Death
Plague that killed 60% of Europe’s population
What is apothecary shop?
Shop where a medical professional sells ingredients to other surgeons and doctors.
Who did George Washington put in charge when he left Philadelphia?
Henry Knox
What was the estimates of the number of people who died from yellow fever in 1793?
5,000
Andrew Brown made sure his paper was put out daily – what was the name of this paper
Federal Gazette
Attorney General Edmund Randolph stated the president could not do what?
Couldn’t move Congress.