Public Health
Smallpox Vaccines in Red Wing
 
Charles Hewitt, a Red Wing doctor who had served with distinction in the Civil War, developed a lab in Red Wing to manufacture the smallpox vaccine. This vaccine was still in use years later by other Red Wing physicians who reported on the spread of the disease and the effects of vaccinations on patients.
Red Wing
 



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