Smallpox: the “Speckled Monster”
Smallpox was a hideous disease that made its victims unrecognizably monstrous, and many died in agony. The terror it fueled was intense…
There’s Nothing Small About Smallpox
The course of the disease from rash to pocks to scabs…
Everyone Died: Hemorrhagic Smallpox
The rarest and most lethal form of the disease, once called “the purples,” was a death sentence…