Primary Source Spotlight: Smallpox & Inoculation
1721 proclamation mentioning small pox
The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic Science in the News, Harvard University
An historical account of the small-pox inoculated in New-England 1726 Internet Archive
George Washington letter to Martha Washington urging inoculation June 24, 1776
George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation 1777
Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War National Park Service
U.S. historical newspaper articles mentioning smallpox and inoculation 1789-1799
More 18th-century newspaper articles mentioning small-pox
18th-century newspaper articles mentioning inoculation
Practical observations on vaccination, or, Inoculation for the cow-pock 1802
Smallpox primary sources 1790-1819
Cowpox primary sources 1790-1819
Smallpox: inoculation and vaccination Science Museum’s History of Medicine
Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination National Library of Medicine
Thomas Jefferson to G. C. Edward Jenner, May 14, 1806
The Smallpox Story: Life and Death of an Old Disease Abbas M. Behbehani Microbiological Reviews, Dec. 1983, p. 455-509