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Massachusetts, April

1721

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The smallpox epidemic, or rather the pandemic, arrives in Boston, one of many in a century that will see 75 million people killed by this infectious disease, one-tenth of the world's population.

As if today Covid-19 caused, between now and the end of the century, between 800 million and a billion deaths.

As cases and deaths increase, the Protestant Rev. and physician

Cotton Mather

, a charismatic and controversial figure, - later

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