| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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The Great Fever. Dir. by Adriana Bosch and Michael Chin. Prod. by Adriana Bosch. Bosch and Company Inc. for American Experience, 2006. 58 mins. (pbs Home Video, http://www.shoppbs.org/)
Anyone familiar with the pbs series American Experience is aware of the quality of these productions. The Great Fever, written, produced, and co-directed by Adriana Bosch, is no exception. This one-hour documentary centers on Carlos Finlay (1833–1915), Jesse W. Lazear (1866–1900), and Walter Reed (1851–1902) as its dramatis personae, with minor roles featuring the contributions of James Carroll (1854–1907) and William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920). Those familiar with the history of medicine will immediately recognize these figures as prominent in the conquest of an ancient ailment, yellow fever.	1
Alexo de Abreu and Father Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre gave early, detailed reports of yellow fever outbreaks from 1623 through 1648, with Matthew Carey presenting a detailed description of the Philadelphia epidemic of 1793. Despite the clear and unequivocal symptomatology of this serious febrile disorder, characterized in its later stages by acute jaundice and black vomit, its etiology was not well understood until Carlos Finlay and the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission headed by Walter Reed (the so-called Reed Board) determined that the disease was carried and disseminated by the Aëdes ægypti mosquito. The Great Fever chronicles this story with appropriate commentary by leading experts, most notably Margaret Humphreys of Duke University, whose Yellow Fever and the South (1992) remains the best source on this devastating summertime scourge that plagued American cities from the late eighteenth century and through the next, from Philadelphia to Memphis and New Orleans.	. . .

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