Thacher, T. A brief rule to guide the common-people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks or measels.--An account of the method and success of inoculating the smallpox, ...

We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months ...

Deep into the night on Jan. 26, 1774, a boat of angry fishermen pushed off from the craggy point of Marblehead under a waxing gibbous moon. At some point on their brief journey, they began to discern ...

As Aboriginal nations mounted a series of coordinated and strategic campaigns to defend Country against invading settlers, the smallpox epidemic spread across the southeast from 1830 to 1832. It ...

George Washington was from Virginia, born February 22, 1732, noted last Sunday. Only once during Washington’s life, did he leave the North American continent, and that was in 1751, when he was 19, ...

A new look at one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history, which rapidly eradicated smallpox in Copenhagen in the early 1800s, has uncovered possible lessons for boosting vaccine ...