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| Description: In 1518 smallpox, long a scourge in Europe, ravaged the native peoples of the New World. This drawing shows Aztec victims being attended by a medicine man. “Those who did survive,” reported Cortés’s secretary, “having scratched themselves, were left in such a condition that they frightened the others with the many deep pits on their faces, hands, and bodies.”
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