2/There was also a controversial vaccine trial planned during this plague outbreak. Initial recipients reported severe pain after inoculation. Residents of Chinatown then refused to receive the Haffkine's anti-plague vaccine without it first being tested in animals.

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Did you know that in the 1900 San Francisco Plague outbreak, the governor Henry Gage publicly denied the outbreak because of fear of economic collapse, spending $100,000 on a public campaign. Gage accused the medical authorities of injecting cadavers to fake evidence. /1

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1893 Oct 1: Author Faith Baldwin born tinyurl.com/zga5ah7 She wrote over 100 novels, including a few medical ones #histmed #histnursing She died 18 March 1978 #medhistory #nursinghistory #medicalfiction