The Great American Vaccine Debate (with Ken Burns)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Franklen and the Small Pox Epidemic
Smallpox was really the scourge of the eighteenth century. Is an awful, awful disease that disfigured your person. This kind of devastating spectre that entered communities. There was no for it. It could reach epidemic. People died in hundreds. And franklin ho was always involved with this issue throughout his life,. It began when he was a boy in boston. Boston had a strong puritan influence, very religious in those days. Many religious figures also dabbled in science. On mather was the leading cleric in the town. Mather's own family had been devastated by both measles and smallpox. When a small pox epidemic came to boston in the early 17 twenties
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