Background
Duffy, John was born on March 27, 1915 in Barrow-in-Furness, England. Came to the United States, 1928.
(Coffins piled high in the cemeteries, swollen corpses bur...)
Coffins piled high in the cemeteries, swollen corpses bursting their coffin lids in the intense mid-summer heat, streets outside burials grounds jammed with caissons and mourners, the late-night sound of sextons working by torch and lantern light--these terrible scenes characterized the epidemics of yellow fever which swept New Orleans in 1853 and which carried more than eleven thousand people off into the "vast congregation of the dead." In "Sword of Pestilence" one of the country's leading medical historians recreates the events of that summer of 1853 in all their horror and irony. It was, says Professor Duffy, the worst single epidemic ever to hit an American city.
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"Duffy has done a vast amount of patient research and a careful job of writing. The product is a volume which throws a bright light upon the disease problems that vied with the Indians, the French and the British in making life uncertain and death a constant neighbor in America's cradle days." Journal of the Medical Association of Alabama
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Duffy, John was born on March 27, 1915 in Barrow-in-Furness, England. Came to the United States, 1928.
Bachelor of Arts, Louisiana State Normal College, 1941; Master of Arts, Louisiana State University, 1944; Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1946.
Assistant professor, Northwestern State College, 1946-1947, 49-53;
assistant professor, Southeastern State College, 1947-1949;
from assistant professor to associate professor of history, Louisiana State University, 1953-1960;
from associate professor to professor public health history, Graduate School Public Health, U. Pittsburgh, 1960-1965;
professor of history of medicine, College Arts and Science and School Medicine, Tulane University, 1965-1972;
Priscilla Alden Burke professor of history, U. Maryland., College Park, 1972-1983;
professor emeritus, U. Maryland., 1983-1996;
Bingham professor humanities, U. Louisville, 1985;
clinical professor emeritus, Tulane University School Medicine, New Orleans, 1989-1996. Consultant New York City Health Department, 1963-1969. Member history life science study section National Institutes of Health, 1967-1970, 91-96, chairman, 1970-1971, consultant, 1971-1996.
Interim editor American History Review, 1975.
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Fellow Louisiana History Association. Member American History Association, American Association for History Medicine (president 1976-1978, Continuing Lifetime Achievement award 1991), Organisation American Historians, Southern History Association M C.
Married Florence Corinne Cook, 1942. 2 children.