The two faces of smallpox : a disease and its prevention in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sweden

Peter Sköld

This study deals with the history of smallpox in Sweden between 1750 and 1900 and the two preventive measures that were used against it: inoculation during the eighteenth and vaccination during the nineteenth Century. Between 1750 and 1800 300,000 children died from smallpox in Sweden. During the ni