Smallpox Smallpoxes has been known by generations, it was mostly confined to Europe. This illness causes flu like symptoms at first then proceeds to form pustules on the victims body. These pustules spread throughout the body, depending on how bad you had it. People would mostly die form a secondary infection, caused when the pustules scabbed and then fell off, leaving deep tissue exposed. If you survived the illness you wouldn’t be about to contract the illness again, because, you build up the antibodies. Many people in Europe contracted it as a child and therefor became resistance to it in adulthood. This was a familiar disease in Europe. It wasn’t anything we haven't seen before, however, just because we are familiar with the disease doesn’t
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You where able to protect your children form this frightful epidemic. The symptoms of small pox where hard to endure, however if they chose to have the procedure, they would most likely only receive a mild case. Yes, it was going to be painful, however, the little pain you would feel is better than massive case that might causes you a vary painful death. Cotten Mather accounts how the poor where all ding from this illness until they learned to take the juices from the a small pox victim then cut the skin and put it the drop. After this has been done then few people contract the illness and non die of it. “No body has small pox anymore” (CS#4 p.12). This proves the effectiveness of the inoculation. The people who infected themselves with the samples would, for the most part, be protected form …show more content…
Some people bring up the point that when the patient contracts the illness even, in it’s mildest form they are still able to spread it. This increases the likelihood of spreading the disease. Such a invasive procedure would open up a wound for which infection to come in and cause more harm or even death to the patient. There was also a chance you would contract more then just a mild case of small poxes, thus, putting your life in danger. John Williams argues that this is agains God’s will. We can’t be tampering with God’s plan for us (CS#4 p. 29). He clings to the old thoughts that God was the main reason for all epidemics, therefor if you contracted the disease or not was not for you to
You where able to protect your children form this frightful epidemic. The symptoms of small pox where hard to endure, however if they chose to have the procedure, they would most likely only receive a mild case. Yes, it was going to be painful, however, the little pain you would feel is better than massive case that might causes you a vary painful death. Cotten Mather accounts how the poor where all ding from this illness until they learned to take the juices from the a small pox victim then cut the skin and put it the drop. After this has been done then few people contract the illness and non die of it. “No body has small pox anymore” (CS#4 p.12). This proves the effectiveness of the inoculation. The people who infected themselves with the samples would, for the most part, be protected form …show more content…
Some people bring up the point that when the patient contracts the illness even, in it’s mildest form they are still able to spread it. This increases the likelihood of spreading the disease. Such a invasive procedure would open up a wound for which infection to come in and cause more harm or even death to the patient. There was also a chance you would contract more then just a mild case of small poxes, thus, putting your life in danger. John Williams argues that this is agains God’s will. We can’t be tampering with God’s plan for us (CS#4 p. 29). He clings to the old thoughts that God was the main reason for all epidemics, therefor if you contracted the disease or not was not for you to