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to prove that mad people have been making up claims about what vaccinations do since vaccinations have existed; a Gillray cartoon about the imagined effects of the smallpox vaccine, based on cowpox:

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2021-04-30

The traditional, modern view is that the Antonine Plague was smallpox, spread among the troops as they headed back from the Parthian War in Mesopotamia in c.165 AD

Lessons from the Antonine Plague 🎧 https://t.co/KIPotnkpMZ

Image Credit: Wellcome Images / CC.

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2021-04-11

Smallpox dream interpretation:

To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected and shocking sickness, and probably contagion. You will meet failure in accomplishing your designs.
https://t.co/KD7jnf2zbU

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2021-03-28

Lord Nelson, smallpox and the question of vaccination: read Nelson's letter to Emma Hamilton discussing how to protect their 'dear Horatia' from illness https://t.co/YHMxQYUPvb

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2021-02-14

NPC character Development of a fisherman sick with smallpox, did you know small pox was the first pandemic of the Americas?

It killed over 3.5 million indigenous people 500 years ago.

Did you checked last night video we posted?

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2021-01-17

The French dermatologist Jean Louis Alibert (1768-1837) performing the vaccination against - painted by Constant Joseph Desbordes.

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2020-12-30

As Belgium rolls out the first Covid-19 let's remember dr. Louis Vrancken (1773-1853) who performed the first smallpox vaccinations in in 1801 - only three years after Jenner published his discovery. Vrancken donated most of his publications to our library.

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2020-12-28

New OC reference - Fannar!! I'll do one with an example of his clothing (tho he changes outfits every day lmao so it's just for an idea) but here are his scars. Mostly burns, some smallpox scars, and the livid scar from the mid-atlantic ridge.

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2020-12-26

500 years ago this month smallpox continued to rage all across central Mexico. Amongst its victims: the 'cazonci' (ruler) of the Tarascans, who had thus far resisted conquest. Follow our monthly Encounters Countdown, written by/thanks to -
https://t.co/zyAGIge9rE

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2020-11-12

Did Smallpox ever get made into a playmat and if so how do I obtain one?!?!

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2020-10-17

It's and so time for one of my favourite Alice Thornton stories. When her brother John had smallpox in 1642, and she was kept away from him, she sent him letters tied around a little dog's neck. But the 🐶 carried the disease back to her.

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2020-08-26

Try our podcast on the first ever vaccine. Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) tell how Edward Jenner and Blossom the cow helped eradicate Smallpox. Shows kids that we’ve beaten viruses before and will again.

Apple: https://t.co/5bVWnsq0Hq
Other: https://t.co/SwpKzvGRFJ

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2020-08-08

You will never see a Mēxihcah priest worshiping Quetzalcoatl atop the Great Pyramid;
You will never play ōllamaliztli in the stone ball court with your life on the line if you lose;
You’ll never be a jaguar warrior in a land free of smallpox.

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2020-06-04

Born 17May1749 an English physician and scientist who pioneered the vaccine. He is often called "the father of immunology" and is noted to have saved countless lives since its introduction. Here he is vaccinating a young child.

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2020-05-17

When theatrical cats Katy and Weasel meet Mozart's time travelling cat Zucker they zoom back in time and save Mozart from dying of smallpox. This series includes music history, a little time travel with a composer's cat, and a problem to solve.

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2020-04-23

From the 1898 science fiction
novel, Dr. Therne [Smallpox decimates a small English town] by H. Rider Haggard (England, 1856-1925).

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2020-04-11

Today’s outdoor exercise, a visit to the Italian Gardens in Hyde Park. There sits a statue to Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who pioneered vaccination against smallpox, which at the time killed c.10% of people in Britain. The statue is by Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall. 1/3

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2020-03-29

In Japan, whenever there was an epidemic of measles, cholera, herpes pemphigus, influenza, etc., various ukiyo-e prints were drawn and printed.
This picture was used as a "talisman" to protect children from smallpox. It was believed that the color red had magical powers.

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2020-03-27