4. Abraham Lincoln and Smallpox
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Lincoln had just given the Gettysburg address when, on the train back to Washington, he began to suffer from symptoms of smallpox. In this episode, we go over to the US to look at the effect of smallpox on Lincoln's presidency - and what happens when a...
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