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Did Squabble Over a Vaccine Cause a Rift in Ben Franklin's Marriage?
« on: September 04, 2017, 06:50:22 pm »
Did Squabble Over a Vaccine Cause a Rift in Ben Franklin's Marriage?
By Sara G. Miller, Staff Writer | September 1, 2017 03:35pm ET
https://www.livescience.com/60305-benjamin-franklin-smallpox-inoculation-dispute.html

Why was Benjamin Franklin estranged from his wife for nearly two decades? A new theory argues that the founding father's marriage may have been strained by his son's health — and an argument about inoculation.

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Despite Franklin's enthusiasm for the inoculation, he didn't inoculate his young son, Franky, who died from the disease in 1731 during an outbreak in Philadelphia.

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Re: Did Squabble Over a Vaccine Cause a Rift in Ben Franklin's Marriage?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2017, 06:59:58 pm »
So, he didn't inoculate the child because his wife disagreed but after the child died his wife blamed him for not inoculating the child?   
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Re: Did Squabble Over a Vaccine Cause a Rift in Ben Franklin's Marriage?
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2017, 07:26:16 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on September 04, 2017, 06:59:58 pm
So, he didn't inoculate the child because his wife disagreed but after the child died his wife blamed him for not inoculating the child?

From the sounds of it, he blamed her, which might be (part of) the reason he was away from her so much.  I didn't see anything about her blaming him.
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Re: Did Squabble Over a Vaccine Cause a Rift in Ben Franklin's Marriage?
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2017, 08:08:57 pm »
Another Anti-Vaxer. 
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