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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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