If you’ve watched the HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you probably recall the scene in which his wife Abigail inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from an ...

Variolation is an outdated medical technique that was used to protect people from smallpox. Doctors haven’t practiced the technique since the 19th century, though, when it was replaced with a more ...

Smallpox inoculation (variolation) was widely reported in sub-Sahara Africa before, during, and after the colonial era. The infective smallpox materials and techniques used, as well as the anatomical ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I recently watched a TV program about vaccines. I’ve always thought that vaccines dated to Jenner and his cowpox vaccine. The program pointed out that before Jenner started ...

Long before vaccination for smallpox was developed in Europe in the 1790s, people in the Middle East, the Caucasus and Africa knew that small amounts of live smallpox virus injected under the skin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In a year when one presidential candidate endorses vaccines, another is ambivalent and a third is staunchly opposed, it’s worth ...

In the 1700s, an enslaved man named Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off smallpox during the Boston epidemic. Here’s his little-told story, and how the Atlantic slave trade and Indigenous medicine ...

I have written and recorded an Audible Original about Benjamin Franklin (due to be released on July 20, 2021). Christian Chauret does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

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