An excerpt from the 1815 book The History of the Small Pox by James Carrick Moore.

In this excerpt, Moore describes the calamities and deaths caused by smallpox in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as a result of European colonization of the Americas. Smallpox was one of the most devastating consequences of the Columbian Exchange. Diseases brought to the Americas by Europeans after the Columbian Exchange caused a population decline among Native Americans that was the largest in human history.

Citation Information
Moore, James Carrick, excerpt from “The history of the small pox,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/b024e53bfba73eb1325426e51409bc51.
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Courtesy of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service via Medical Heritage Library and Internet Archive.

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