Experiment at Monticello : Thomas Jefferson and smallpox vaccination

Duration: 0:18:03

Genre: Drama | Educational | Historical | Medical

Year Published: 1953

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Indiana University Instructional Support Services: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "Experiment at Monticello" (season 1, episode 12), which originally aired March 4th, 1953 on NBC-TV. Dramatized incidents show how President Thomas Jefferson uses himself as a guinea pig, receiving inoculation with a smallpox vaccine, in effort to establish control of the disease and break down public superstition regarding the use of the vaccine during the 1801 epidemic.

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