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Old 11-10-2020, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by agate View Post
My father was born in 1902 and I distinctly recall his smallpox vaccination scar. It looked much larger than mine and wasn't on the arm--it may have been on his leg but I can't recall. Anyway, they had smallpox vaccinations even back then. My mother had one too (born 1903).
It was 1798 when the small pox vaccination came about. My scar is on my upper thigh. It hurt when it was done. Of course I wasn't born back then.

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