By Nicholas Christian
Dr. Benjamin Rush and
Dr. Jean Deveze have helped Philadelphia in their darkest time. They created
the bleeding method to assist patients suffering from yellow fever. Dr.
Benjamin Rush treats an average of 100 fever patients per day. Locals look upon
Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. Jean Deveze as heroes during this crisis for their
tremendous amount of help concerning this problem.
Dr.
Benjamin Rush has enlisted the help of the Free African Society to assist fever
patients. Rush believes that Africans are immune to the yellow fever. Dr.
Deveze has helped by using his residence, Bush Hill, during this crisis as
facility to care for yellow fever patients and hiring trained nurses to help
the patients.
Locals are thankful to Dr. Rush and Deveze for their
service to Philadelphia.
“Dr.
Deveze and Rush saved my child,” said Clarice Dickens.
They
have taught other doctors and church officials the bleeding technique, in which
doctors remove bad blood from the body, to help quicken the pace of healing for
Philadelphia’s people.
“We are just doing our part to help the good
people of Philadelphia in their grave crisis,” said Dr. Deveze. They are doing
their very best to help Philadelphia and locals are starting to regain hope
that they will survive this epidemic.