Pox Americana: A Talk by Dr. Elizabeth A. Fenn

5:30 p.m., Thursday, 1 September 2005
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Reception and Viewing of
"Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches:
Treating the Sick in North Carolina, 1500s-1900s"
North Carolina Collection Gallery
5:00 p.m.

Dr. Elizabeth Fenn, professor at Duke University and author of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782, will give a talk on the disease's history and its effects on the American Revolution. Dr. Fenn's lecture coincides with and complements a current exhibition in the North Carolina Collection Gallery titled "Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches: Treating the Sick in North Carolina, 1500s-1900s."

Parking is available after 5:00 p.m. in most campus lots and in any space not specially marked. For more information, call Liza Terll at 962-4207 or email liza_terll@unc.edu.