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>>15327487
>You realise that smallpox existed before the 1800s-1900s

You realise that mercury and arsenicals were used as "remedies" for everything since the dark ages?

Also the people were force medicated and quarantines, which lead to death.
They took away children put them in quarantine facilities, and "treated" them, with blood letting, arsenicals, icebaths and shaving of the pox.
Why do you think there were so many riots against quarantines?
They straight up isolated people and killed them, and than said "it was the pox"

Also the first """vaccinations""" were not just a injection.
If you already had the pox presented, they took ground up pox from deceases, and suspended it in mercury solution, then they pricked every pox pimple with a needle that was submerged in the perpared solution.
"oh how did so many people die, such a mystery"

>>15303390
>Also, lead arsenate was not used widely as an insecticide until the late 1800s

But blue mass, Icebaths, and bloodletting for "all kinds of diseases", were a thing.
>minor cough
>let some blood and put kid in a icebath

>does not get better?
>then dimethyl ether inhalation therapy it is
>not better?
>then we resort to mercury and arsnicals

Also putting children in mental asylums and starve them was a thing.
Also putting children in ""Quarantine" facilities during ""pox"" times were a thing.
Where they did:
>electroshock therapy
>bloodletting
>Icebaths
>put them in whirling chairs
https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/vol28_4.1_11.pdf
>gave them opiates as """Behaviour forming medicine"""

And "medical naive fallacies":
>kid with pox is sick
>kid without pox is healthy
>so we cut off the pox and child will get healthy
Sadly all the pox shaved children died a horrbly painfull dead, which lead to the panic.