BEING A DOCTOR during Savannah’s yellow fever epidemic was a tough gig. Antibiotics wouldn’t be invented for another century, leeches were considered the most effective “cure” in your medicine bag, […]
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Get sick at the Davenport House
Set in various parts of the refined American Federal-style domicile on Columbia Square, the hour-long show chronicles the horrific illness that killed one out of five Savannah citizens and provides a fascinating and germane context of social norms, race relations, media propaganda and medical inefficacy.