In May 1763, an alliance of Delaware and other tribes laid siege to Fort Pitt in present-day Pittsburgh to drive British ...

Smallpox once killed 80% of the children it ... But it is very like the mid-19th-century memento photographs taken of deceased children surrounded by their living siblings. The specter of death ...

Vaccine mandates and strict quarantines were commonplace occurrences in the Berkshires in the 19th century, and well into the mid-20th century. When smallpox raged across Western Massachusetts in 1872 ...

Art from the 19th Century depicting Native American life ... River he portrayed in his images were nearly destroyed by a smallpox epidemic in 1837. Amy Mossett—a member of the State Historical ...

Smallpox, typhoid, and yellow fever were the most dreaded scourges of the 19th century. They seemed to come out of nowhere, and there was no known cure for typhoid or yellow fever. (Vaccination ...

To be fair, smallpox vaccination was far from perfectly safe in the late 19th century. Even Jenner himself couldn’t explain how his vaccine worked, and some methods (such as passing infectious ...

But in the 19th century demand for Hirudo medicinalis ... The physician declared that all ills, ranging from smallpox to cancer, were the result of inflammation, and bleeding, he said, was ...

He examines the reactions to outbreaks of smallpox, cholera and plague in the 18th and 19th centuries ... In the 14th century, for example, at the time of the Black Plague, it was believed ...

Smallpox vaccination was pioneered by English ... the disease was still endemic in Europe and in many other areas at the end of the 19th century. But intensification of the vaccination campaign ...