Smallpox Inoculation in Colonial New Jersey: A Contemporary Account

Authors

  • Larry R. Gerlach Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v31i1.1479

Keywords:

New Jersery, colonial history, smallpox, Hendrickson Family Papers,

Abstract

Gerlach writes about and transcribes a manuscript in Rutgers' Special Collections  "The General Method of Enoculation as now Practised."  This work the only known account of variolization in Colonial New Jersey and is especially interesting because of its vivid and detailed exposition of the inoculation procedure from initial preparation to the treatment of after-effects.

Author Biography

Larry R. Gerlach, Rutgers University

Rutgers University Libraries

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2012-05-18

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