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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1973
Page
20
A letter from the wife of the British ambassador to Turkey describes a Turkish family gathering for a smallpox party. An old woman pricks veins with venom from a nutshell, producing light smallpox symptoms but often fatal outcomes. The tale frames early, crude attempts to curb smallpox before Jenner’s cowpox insight.
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