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This past Presidents’ Day, I thought it would be a good idea to talk briefly about the role that smallpox played in the life of our first president and it’s important role in the American Revolution. For those who would like to learn about this in greater detail, I would highly recommend the book, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic ofwritten by Elizabeth A.

Fenn. America and specifically to the Boston smallpox epidemic ofa watershed moment in American public health. The debate in over the use of inoculation to address smallpox epidemics laid the initial groundwork that eventually grew into public health laws and programs to address infectious Size: KB.

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The smallpox epidemic that struck Boston in was one of the most deadly of the century in colonial America, but was also the catalyst for the first major application of preventative inoculation in the colonies.

The use of inoculation laid the foundation for the modern techniques of infectious diseases prevention, and the contentious public. An intense debate concerning inoculations against smallpox in the Americas took place in the s.

Colonists in America quickly learned of inoculation efforts and spent nearly years debating whether people should risk death to avoid the disease. In the early s, the Spanish crown sent vaccinations to the colonial clergymen. Epidemics in Colonial America Paperback – June 1, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic Smallpox in colonial America.

book Elizabeth A. Fenn. out of 5 stars Kindle Edition. $ Health and Wellness in Colonial America (Health and Wellness in Daily Life)Cited by:   SMALLPOX IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND. by STANLEY M. Smallpox in colonial America. book and LUCILE NEWMAN. Introduction “Because of the destroying angel standing over the Town, a day of prayer is needed that we may prepare to meet our God.” Thus wrote Cotton Mather in as his Boston congregation faced the return of smallpox.

“Smallpox was the most feared disease in the American colonies. ‘The Speckled Monster’ killed as many as 30 percent of its victims, and survivors could be left blinded and scarred. “In May ofword reached Marblehead that smallpox was raging in Boston. Taylor provides an extensive - pages including bibliography and index - overview of European colonial initiatives in the Atlantic, North America and parts of the Caribbean from the early s - when Portuguese and Spanish proto-colonists got their feet wet, so to speak, by colonizing the Azores, Canaries and Medeiras - through Spanish and Russian efforts on the West Coast in the early 5/5(5).

Pox Americana tells the story of the great smallpox epidemic of the s and s in North America. The epidemic affected the American Revolution because colonial soldiers who had not been previously exposed to smallpox contracted it in huge numbers, particularly in the New England and Southern colonies where inoculation had not been a widespread practice.5/5(5).

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by one of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in Octoberand the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the global eradication of the disease in The risk of death following contracting the disease was about 30%, with higher rates among cations: Scarring of the skin, blindness.

John H. Duffy, Epidemics in Colonial America (Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, ), p. 23,88 Top, Communicable Disease, Roslyn S. Wolman, "A tale of two colonial cities: inoculation against smallpox in Philadelphia and Boston," Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 45 (October ) While childbirth, smallpox, and a host of other conditions threatened the lives of residents in 17th- and 18th-century North America, violent conflict also prevailed throughout this era.

Encounters between Native Americans and European colonists, as well as protracted battles between British, Spanish, French, and American forces, inflicted. The paper war during Boston’s smallpox epidemic of ___ The most dreaded disease in colonial America was smallpox.

1 When the highly contagious disease entered a colonial port city, up to sixty percent of the people might fall ill, and from five to twenty percent would die.

Residents fled to File Size: KB. The British, the Indians, and Smallpox as a true scholar, Knollenberg immediately sent the evidence to the periodical which printed it along with his admission: "obviously this evidence invali-dates part of my article."9 From that point on, there seemed no doubt that the.

During the s, smallpox (variola major) eradicates at least 30 percent of the native population on the Northwest coast of North America, including numerous members of Puget Sound apparent first smallpox epidemic on the northwest coast coincides with the first direct European contact, and is the most virulent of the deadly European diseases that will sweep over the.

Smallpox in Washington's Army: Strategic Implications of the Disease During the American Revolutionary War Ann M. Becker Abstract The prevalence of smallpox during the early years of the American War for Independence posed a very real danger to the success of the Revolution.

This essay documents the impact of the deadly disease. In North America smallpox wiped out 90% of the Native American population on the Massachusetts coast (). Overall, some estimates say that 90 - 95% of the native population of the New World died due to smallpox.

And it's not just the new world: The Plague of Athens in B.C. may have been smallpox (33% mortality rate)File Size: 77KB. Explore our list of Colonial Americas - Historical Fiction Books at Barnes & Noble®.

Receive FREE shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership. Due to COVID, orders may be delayed. The result is an extensive discussion of the role of smallpox in the Colonial era, but the book's main strength is in the detailed analysis of smallpox among Native Americans, from Mexico to Canada." Tina Neville, University of South Florida at St.

Petersburg, Library JournalAuthor: Elizabeth Fenn. Origin of Smallpox. The origin of smallpox is unknown. Smallpox is thought to date back to the Egyptian Empire around the 3 rd century BCE (Before Common Era), based on a smallpox-like rash found on three mummies.

The earliest written description of a disease that clearly resembles smallpox appeared in China in the 4 th century CE (Common Era). Early written descriptions also .Smallpox was typically brought to eighteen-century America by either English immigrants or recently-arrived slaves.

Unlike in Europe, however, the majority of the American population led relatively isolated lives on farms and plantations. (Colonial Williamsburg) George Washington to the President of the Continental Congress, 21 July   The Colonial Image: Origins of American Culture by John Chester Miller Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust First Special Report of the Factory Inspectors of Illinois on Small-Pox by Illinois.