This Week on Dispatches: Katie Turner Getty on Combating the Spread of Disease Eighteenth-Century Style

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March 14, 2020
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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews attorney and JAR associate editor Katie Turner Getty on the use of smoke to fumigate refugees from Boston in 1775 in an attempt to stop the spread of the deadly virus, smallpox.

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