Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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a little bit of your skin in your chest.
Put some of that in it.
Mix it with the blood.
Cover it with a walnut shell.
Keep it warm.
And what will happen is after a few days, you will get a few very minor pock marks there, which then will dry up and fall off, and you won't get small pocks then or ever.
Mather says, if this ever happens in Boston, he sends a letter to the Royal Society, I will make sure we do this.
So there had been a smallpox outbreak in Boston roughly every 13 years since 1630, and it's a devastating disease.
And in 1721, a ship from the West Indies arrives and there are reports that some members of the crew are ill.
They get off the ship, their renting rooms in the north end.
And then after about a week, they heard these guys have smallpox.
And by this time, everyone who was on the ship, everyone they have encountered, many of the people encountered by those people.
we'll get the smallpox.
So a panic starts in Boston.
Mather comes to the selectmen and says, I know what to do because I've read about this.
Also, Mather has a slave named Onesimus from West Africa.
And Onesimus had confirmed what Franklin read in the reports of the Royal Society.
In West Africa, someone gets the smallpox.
He says, you cutty, cutty skin, take some of the pox, mix it up, and nobody gets smallpox.
So Mather, on the testimony of the Royal Society, as well as Onesimus, goes to the selectmen and says, we should start inoculating.
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