Open Database Connectivity. In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems.
The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits 100 on this day in 1793. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Yellow fever, or American plague as it was known at the time, is a viral disease that begins with fever and muscle pain.
References. 1  Estes, J. Worth, and Smith, Billy G. A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic. Philadelphia: Science History Publications, 1997. 2  Kopperman, Paul E. ââVenerate the Lancetâ: Benjamin Rushâs Yellow Fever Therapy in Context.â Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2004, 78: 539â574.