The Colonies were humming along in the New World—and then—during the American Revolution–a disabling epidemic mangled the masses. The dreaded disease of that time was smallpox; it had a 30% mortality rate. In July of 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, a Founding Father and America’s future second president, “Tis a pestilence that walketh in Darkness.” Ironically…