Title: Excellent History
Product review: The summary is a bit misleading (hence only 4 stars) in that it states that it will explain what it was like for people living in the time. It didn't do this (try reading Fever 1793, a fictionalized account of the yellow fever epidemic for this) but it did provide an excellent historical account of yellow fever and the attempt to deal with it. The book sometimes rambled, giving the history of where people were born and such, that was not important to the historical accuracy of the book but it was not annoying enough to make me stop reading. This is not a light read - I have no medical background and struggled with some of the terminology but found it a compelling account. The author did an excellent job of turning something that could be boring as sawdust and making it come alive as the men struggled to put an end to this devastating diease.
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