Yellow Fever

Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Chicago Library

John Crerar Library Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine

Yellow Fever

This guide is meant to be general a starting point to locating books on the history of medicine as it relates to yellow fever in North America, primarily within the University of Chicago Library.

Keywords & subject headings to try in the Library Catalog & online databases

history, historical

yellow fever

Selected Resources at the Library:

Plagues: Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / Christopher Wills. Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley Pub., 1996. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RA649 .W55 1996

The saffron scourge : a history of yellow fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905 / Jo Ann Carrigan.Lafayette, La. : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, c1994. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RA644.Y4C340 1994

Yellow fever and the South / Margaret Humphreys. Based on author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard, 1983, presented under Public health in the New South. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1992. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RA644.Y4H860 1992

Yellow fever & public health in the New South / John H. Ellis. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1992. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RA644.Y4E440 1992

Yellow fever in the North : the methods of early epidemiology / William Coleman. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RA649.C640 1987

History of yellow fever / by George Augustin. Imprint: New Orleans : Searcy & Pfaff, 1909. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RC207.A9

Histoire de la fièvre jaune. English The history of yellow fever : an essay on the birth of tropical medicine / François Delaporte ; foreword by Georges Canguilhem ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1991. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RC210.D45130 1991

Yellow fever; an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin, by Henry Rose Carter ... edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost. Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins company, 1931.Crerar Stacks Call no.: RC207.C3

A history of the yellow fever. The yellow fever epidemic of 1878, in Memphis, Tenn., embracing a complete list of the dead, the names of the doctors and nurses employed, names of all who contributed money or means, and the names and history of the Howards, together with other data, and lists of the dead elsewhere. By J. M. Keating ... Memphis, Tenn., Printed for the Howard Association, 1879. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RC211.T3K3

Duffy, John, 1915- Sword of pestilence; the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic of 1853. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1966. Crerar Stacks Call no.: RC211.L9D86

Yellow fever; a compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen. Imprint: Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1911. Regenstein Stacks Call no.: J66 ser.no. 5919 doc.822 OR Crerar Dewey Coll Call no.: 616.928 R100

An annotated catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection / compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. Rochester, N.Y. : Edward G. Miner Library, 1990. Crerar Stacks Call no.: Z6664.Y4U54 1990

A history of yellow fever; indisputable facts pertaining to its origin and cause ... with an addendum on its twin sister dengue, containing a parallel table of the most prominent symptoms of each disease. By W. L. Coleman ... Imprint: [Chicago, The Clinic publishing company, 1898] Crerar Dewey Coll Call no.: 616.928 P800

Original investigations on the natural history (symptoms and pathology) of yellow fever : 1854-1894 / by Joseph Jones. Imprint: Chicago : American Medical Association Press, 1894. Crerar Dewey Coll Call no.: 616.928 P400

If you have any questions about resources or services available to the biomedical sciences community please contact Deb Werner, Biomedical Reference Librarian or Christa Modschiedler, Biomedical Bibliographer & Reference Librarian. You may also email the Crerar Reference Staff.

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