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Smallpox Inoculation and Onesimus
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as posted by the channelInoculation existed for centuries before it was accepted by Western medicine. Onesimus, an African slave in early eighteenth century Boston, played a critical role in legitimizing a procedure that saved millions of lives. The History Guy remembers Onesimus, who has been called one of "the Best Bostonians of All Time."
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