James Smith (1771 - June 12, 1841), was a Maryland physician serving Baltimore City as a medical practitioner in 1797.
do swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will faithfully use my best exertions to preserve the genuine vaccine matter, and to furnish the same to the citizens of the United States; and also, that I will abstain from every thing prohibited in relation to the establishment of the post office of the United States.
The original Chesapeake Colonies solicited a vital 19th century medicine hindering the devastation of the variola virus.
The American military forces could not burden the national security liabilities of a coastal viral pandemic reasonably considering the imminent Chesapeake campaign by the British Empire harmonized by the Battle of Baltimore as an addendum to the War of 1812.
Smith had unintentionally furnished bona fide smallpox matter by United States mail mistakenly in error for kinepox.