Known for its signature blisters and gruesome deaths, smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th century and has long been a scourge of humanity. But how long? Scientists have argued that it ...

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And smallpox? Completely eliminated in 1980 ... An illustration showing chloroform being used as an anaesthetic by 19th century surgeons. Operations in the early 19th Century were a thing of ...