Show smallpox ancient disease smallpox aich vv it tell at one time or another has been ery lemic in almost every land was recorded in the earliest historical records of egypt an and d arabia but it was not introduced into europe until about the sixth century at the end of the eighteenth century the death rate on the continent w was as per thousand while in russia t two wo million persons died of smallpox in one year A hindu physician Dhanwant arl Is believed to have given elven tile first inoculation for smallpox about 1500 B C cotton mather tart recommended this means of fighting the dibease in the united states |