Catherine the Great Letter Extolling Virtues of Vaccination Is Up for Auction(smithsonianmag.com)

9 pointsby pseudolus5 yıl önce2 comments

Catherine the Great Letter Extolling Virtues of Vaccination Is Up for Auction

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/letter-from-catherine-the-great-on-smallpox-vaccination-goes-up-for-auction-180979121/

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1cvmask5 yıl önce

Luckily she was the head of state. They firebombed the vaccine evangelist Cotton Mather’s house in 1721:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/07/smallpox-c...

datenarsch5 yıl önce

On that note, Catherine the Great had her own husband and several other people brutally murdered to illegitimately usurp the Russian throne and was a terribly repressive and authoritarian despot, even if she liked to claim otherwise.