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Charles DePaolo

Charles DePaolo

Charles DePaolo earned a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University. He is author of Epidemic Disease in Human Understanding (2006), Pandemic Influenza in Fiction (2014), William Watson Cheyne and the Advancement of Bacteriology (2016), and other books. He received the 2018 Samuel J. Zakon Award in the History of Dermatology (First Prize) for the essay, “Frederic E. Mohs and the History of Zinc Chloride”; and has contributed biographies to the Journal of Medical Biography (Royal Society of Medicine of England). He lives with his wife and family in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

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Illness and Disease, Medicine, The War Years (1775-1783) October 27, 2022 October 28, 2022

One Man’s Campaign against Smallpox: James Thacher, M.D., Continental Army Physician

James Thacher’s contribution to the history of smallpox and to the Revolutionary War has not been fully appreciated. In the historical scholarship, his tireless…

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