Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today's ...
Dr. Benjamin Franklin became a passionate advocate for smallpox inoculation after his son died of the disease in 1736. The great scourge of Thomas Jefferson’s era (1743-1826) was smallpox. Historians ...
THE MOST dramatic showdown between humans and smallpox probably took place in Europe in the 18th century. The disease had by then been gathering momentum for a couple of hundred years, and despite the ...
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