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In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria

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Tags: vaccines, smallpox, usa.ma.boston, cotton mather, 18th century, medicine, diseases.infectious, health.public, author.jess mchugh, source.the washington post, paywall.hard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/07/smallpox-coronavirus-antivaxxers-cotton-mather/

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Title
A Puritan minister incited fury by pushing inoculation against a smallpox epidemic
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1187 words