“It must afford no small pleasure to a benevolent mind in the midst of a war, which daily makes so much havoc with the human species, to reflect, that the small-pox which once proved equally fatal to thousands, has been checked in its career, and in a great degree subdued by the practice of Inoculation.”

— Benjamin Rush , book The New Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox

[Rush, Benjamin, 1792, The New Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox, Parry Hall, Philadelphia]

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American physician, educator, author 1745–1813

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