The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing

For nonfiction and children's sentences, adult readers can easily understand the book. Jurmain writes to the readers a horrible story in the style of illustrative medical puzzle that explains how yellow fever can paralyze troops and civilians until the secret of disease prevalence is discovered . In thrilling and sometimes horrible detail, the story shrinks rapidly and reveals how the scientists are striving to overcome the great difficulties to find ways to stop spreading. The most noteworthy is the personal sacrifice of an American physician, including Walter Reed, James Carroll (assistant of Reid), Jesse Lazell, and Cuban born doctor Aristide Agramont. The team moved between America and Cuba, where they studied the occurrence of particularly fatal diseases. They often endanger their lives by moving or using their bodies within infected people and trying out infection, treatment, vaccination theory. This book gives a visual impact with vintage photographs and colorful sketches, makes scientific data easier to understand, and links readers with those who discover the main role of fatal mosquitoes, the secret of sick infection . This real story, like a thriller, has a fast tempo and attracts readers as it witnesses competition to stop death over time.

The secret of yellow death: A real medical detective story, Suzanne Jurmain, introduces a lead trip to Cuba as a team of four physicians to locate the cause of yellow fever. Lead made as much preparation as possible for the trip and participated in several scientific theoretical tests. Cuban physician Carlos Finlay has been working on one of these for nearly 20 years: he believes yellow fever is caused by mosquitoes and caused by bites. Most scientists are silly about this idea; Lead think this is one of many possibilities

Over the first century since the end of the seventeenth century, sudden yellow fever occurred, causing death and panic in Philadelphia and all its surrounding areas. Because medicine seems to be helpless, yellow fever is a terrible and inexplicable threat to compare any disease of this age, thereby depriving of life and confusing society. Yellow fever is a flavivirus that spreads through humans through Aedes aegypti bites. Once introduced into a human host, the virus begins to replicate in lymph nodes. Early symptoms include pain, pain, fever, nausea and dizziness lasting for several days. In severe cases, the disease spreads to the liver, causing jaundice, spasm, and internal bleeding, the symptoms recover with new strength.

The secret of Suzanne Jurmain's yellow death is the length of 101 pages, there are about 50 photos and illustrations. The best is a picture of the actual chart called "fever chart" showing changes in the patient's body temperature during the recovery and recovery of yellow fever within 2 weeks (pages 42-32). Pictures of real agreements used to recruit human applicants for yellow fever research are equally good (p. 64). This book first grabs the reader and half of the page explains the symptoms of yellow fever. For any child, this lively story never makes people bore or dull ("His eyes look like lemon, sometimes he will cry or shout"). Method of yellow fever The doctor Walter Lead will travel to Cuba according to the instructions of the US government