Experiment At Monticello - Thomas Jefferson And Smallpox Vaccination

Year Published: 1965

Creator: Teaching Film Custodians

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: An excerpt from the 'CALVALCADE OF AMERICA' television program. Dramatizes President Jefferson's support of Benjamin Waterhouse's efforts, during a smallpox epidemic in 1801, to introduce the smallpox vaccination developed by Dr Jenner in England in 1776.


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