America’s founding generation knew all too well how terrifying a measles outbreak could be, writes honigsbaum
On August 7, 1721, amid a raging smallpox epidemic, a new satirical newspaper appeared in Boston. The brainchild of Benjamin Franklin’s older brother, James, the New-England Courant set out to expose religious cant and threats to freedom.
That summer, it saw no greater threat to the liberty of Boston’s citizens than “variolation,” an early form of vaccination in which infectious material from a smallpox patient was inserted under the skin of a healthy subject in hopes of inducing an immune response. One of the leading advocates of this untested medical procedure was Cotton Mather, the Puritan preacher who had embarrassed...
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