Inoculation of Smallpox
Author Andrew Wehrman talked about the history of smallpox inoculation. The American Revolution Institute in Washington, D.C, hosted this event.
Description
Author Andrew Wehrman talked about the history of smallpox inoculation. The American Revolution Institute in Washington, D.C, hosted this event.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- What were the “last places” to experience smallpox epidemics?
- Based on the clip, what is inoculation? How does it differ from vaccination?
- How did knowledge of inoculation spread? Summarize the story from 1721 that Andrew Wehrman shares about Cotton Mather, Onesimus, and Zabdiel Boylston.
- How was the “procedure” initially viewed in America, and how did this change over time?
Additional Resources
- Bell Ringer: Justice John Marshall Harlan and Vaccine Mandates
- Bell Ringer: Failure and Medical Advancement
- Bell Ringer: Old Barracks in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars
- Bell Ringer: Edward Jenner and the Smallpox Vaccine
- Bell Ringer: What Was Smallpox?
- Bell Ringer: Inventor: Jonas Salk
- Lesson Plan: Lessons Learned from the Development of the Polio Vaccine
- Lesson Plan: The Legacy of Benjamin Franklin
- Lesson Plan: Vaccine mandates: Policy, history, law, and science
Participants
Vocabulary
- American Revolution (1765-83)
- Century
- Congregation
- Cotton Mather
- Cowpox
- Edward Jenner
- Epidemic
- Fever
- Inoculation
- Mortality
- Onesimus
- Pustule
- Royal Society
- Smallpox
- Vaccination
- Zabdiel Boylston