Smallpox baby

Smallpox

By xavierharris12

  • Franklin losses his son

    Franklin losses his son
    President Franklin losses his son due to smallpox.

  • Harvard, Adams, and smallpox

    Harvard, Adams, and smallpox
    John Adams (1735-1826) underwent variolation during a Boston epidemic.

  • Royalty Inoculated

    Royalty Inoculated
    Catherine the Great of Russia was inoculated by physician Thomas Dimsdale.

  • Farmerpox

    Farmerpox
    Benjamin Jesty was a farmer and cattle breeder, inoculated his wife and two sons with matter from a cowpox lesion on one of his cows.

  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson
    Andrew Jackson future U.S. president, contracted smallpox at age 14 while being held prisoner by the British.