Collected Item: “Smallpox in Boston: Inoculation and the Revere Family”
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Smallpox in Boston: Inoculation and the Revere Family
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screenshot from the Paul Revere Memorial Association website
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As the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in Boston, museum interpreters at the Paul Revere house looked to the archives to learn more about how Boston has responded to wide-spread illness in the past. This blog post from The Revere Express blog explains how the smallpox epidemic effected the Revere Family and ways that 18th century medicine responded to the illness.
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GREATERBOSTON, Covid-19, Museums & Collections, Collecting Institutions: Paul Revere Memorial Association, blog, primary source
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https://www.paulreverehouse.org/inoculation-and-the-revere-family/
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Edward S. Gault, Interpreter at the Paul Revere House
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2020-04-06