Smallpox inoculation : orders to physicians, 1792.

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Smallpox inoculation : orders to physicians, 1792.

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Contains tickets requesting that the Boston residents named on each ticket receive a smallpox inoculation. The tickets are addressed to individual physicians and are signed by a member of the Overseers of the Poor. Some of the tickets have a ward number and all of the tickets have a date between August and November 1792.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Boston (Mass.). Overseers of the Poor

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