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The Yellow Fever In Philadelphia
The yellow fever is a murder to Philadelphia. It killed thousands people in philadelphia. That why I volunteered to come to Philadelphia and put my physician training to use. I am going to write a composition of how the philadelphia way of curing the yellow fever and the french way of curing the yellow fever by the order of King George the Third I need to do this. There is to treatments that can cure the yellow fever. The similar thing is that the French doctors and the Philadelphia doctors know what the yellow fever.. They will both cure the patients to which is the good thing if they don't die from their method not the yellow fever.

One of the treatments does not involve blood (French way). The other one is that is has mainly blood involved

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