Martha Washington Let Them Fill Her With Smallpox
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Philadelphia, 1776. A killer is spreading faster than the British Army — and you can't see it, outrun it, or shoot it. In this episode of On This Day... 1776, Martha Washington tells how smallpox was killing more soldiers than bullets, and why she chose to be deliberately infected to survive it. With Washington's army collapsing, she undergoes variolation — a brutal procedure that gave her a mild case to build immunity before she joined her husband at the front. On This Day...1776 is an ongoing filmmaking experiment from the artists at Primordial Soup. Created by @primordialsouplabs in…
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