Fri 20 Oct 2017: Finstock history talk on eighteenth-century medical care of Smallpox
This event is in the past.
'… the constant terror of this loathsome and fatal disease', by Dr Rosemary Leadbeater.
Finstock Village Hall, 7.40pm for 8.00pm. £2.50 for non-members.
Examining the susceptibility to smallpox in young families in Oxfordshire and the contribution made by local inoculation practice towards controlling the disease, within the context of eighteenth-century medical care. Finstock's own smallpox airing house was located near White's Barn, run by Charlbury's Dr Edward Lyster.
Rosemary is a member of staff at Oxford Brookes University.