Doctor
There were smallpox epidemics in the county in 1750, 1757, in 1772, and another in 1779. Stevenson inoculated all who came to him without charge against the pox. Many were resistant to change and did not accept the inoculation. In fact in 1776 the Council of Safety in Baltimore, forbade the inoculation of the troops lest it cause an epidemic.
In 1769 Stevenson's brother, Henry Stevenson established the first smallpox hospital in the colonies there in Baltimore.
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