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POLICY Massachusetts broke ground on mandatory vaccination in 1905. History may repeat itself with COVID-19. by Stephen Ornes One spring morning in 1902, E. Edwin Spencer, the city physician of Cambridge, Massachusetts, visited the home of Henning Jacobson, a local Lutheran preacher. Spencer had the vaccination for smallpox. Jacobson refused it for both himself and his family. The standoff between the two men would lead to what historian Michae...

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Smallpox ‘virus squads’ and the mandatory vaccinations upheld by the Supreme Court Gillian Brockell © National Library of Medicine/National Library of Medicine This illustration depicts a compulsory vaccination drive in New Jersey, circa 1880s. E. Edwin Spencer had no way of knowing he would be making history that day when he knocked on Henning Jacobson’s door in Cambridge, Mass. All he knew was that smallpox was spreading in their city at the dawn of the 20th century...