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Illness and Disease, Medicine July 28, 2020 July 26, 2020

Coronavirus 2020? Nope. The Speckled Monster of 1764

by Katie Turner Getty

In January 1764, a “speckled monster” struck Boston, forcing businesses to shutter and residents to isolate themselves in their homes or flee the city…

Features, Illness and Disease, Interviews, Medicine March 14, 2020 March 14, 2020

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

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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…

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Illness and Disease, The War Years (1775-1783) January 9, 2020 January 8, 2020

Smoking the Smallpox Sufferers

by Katie Turner Getty

At about midnight on September 29, 1792, Ashley Bowen and his young assistant, Tucker Huy, heard a carriage clatter up the Boston Road and…

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1. John Fitzhugh Millar The American Invasion of Canada

Benedict Arnold could see in the summer of 1774 that when a war broke out the British could simply send troops down Lake Champlain from Canada and clamp a lid…
2. Darren Sharrocks The American Invasion of Canada

Good article and very interesting but the spelling and grammar needs correcting.
3. William Cooke The American Invasion of Canada

It may have been more appropriate to use the spelling Canadien to refer to the French-speaking inhabitants of the Province of Quebec during the Revolutionary War.