Jean Devèze
Books
- The Summer the Capital Emptied Yellow Fever, Race, and the Collapse of Philadelphia in 1793 · Liszt Think
In August 1793, yellow fever struck Philadelphia, then the nation’s capital. Within weeks, George Washington fled and half the city followed. Five thousand died before the first frost. Amid the exodus, Dr.
- The Arrival of the Hankey…urses into the homes of the dying on the false belief that Black people were immune to the disease. Stephen Girard and the French physician Jean Devèze would run the Bush Hill hospital. A committee of citizens would govern the emptied city. The epidemic would expose every fault line in the…
- The Exodus Begins…ed institution it would become under the management of the Committee of Twenty and the direction of Stephen Girard and the French physician Jean Devèze. In these early days of September, it was a place where the sick were taken because there was nowhere else. The Committee of Twenty had not…
- The Fraught Establishment and Early…intment placed Bush Hill on a collision course with the medical orthodoxy that Benjamin Rush had established in the city. The physician was Jean Devèze. He was a French doctor, trained in the medical traditions of France and the French Caribbean, where yellow fever was a known disease, a re…