8th February,“When inoculation pro smallpox was urban in the 18th century, the broad theologians of the Sorbonne pondered it by part, at that time pronounced it sinful. God sends smallpox to punish the wicked, they reasoned, and man would be presumptuous to interfere. Smallpox inoculation was flatly prohibited in the territories of central Italy controlled by the Pope until he was deposed from temporal power in 1870.”
8th February | Current World News