Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets

Preface vii

Introduction: The Forgotten Scourge 1

1 Yellow Fever Comes to America 7

2 The Capital Under Siege 23

3 Nothing but a Yellow Fever 34

4 Yellow Fever Moves South 47

5 The Nation Threatened 60

6 Yellow Fever’s Odd Couple 75

7 Walter Reed 87

8 Spanish Bullets and Yellow Fever 101

9 The Opportunity of a Lifetime 135

10 “A Soldier’s Chances” 148

11 Putting It All Together 165

12 Affirmation 173

13 Presentation 189

14 Recognition 205

15 Historic Application 215

16 Yellow Fever after Walter Reed 224

Epilogue: After Cuba 240

Afterword: Yellow Fever Today 245

Acknowledgments 249

Notes 250

Bibliography 259

Index 271

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