| Description |
x, 278 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. 'The most terrible of all the ministers of death' -- 2. From myths to mummies -- 3. Coming into focus: AD 0 to 1500 -- 4. Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500-1700 -- 5. News from the East -- 6. Kicking against the pricks -- 7. The heyday of inoculation -- 8. From cuckoos to cowpox -- 9. The world-wide spread - 10. Confusion and compulsion -- 11. A hundred years on -- 12. 'Bring hither the fatted calf' -- 13. Sorting out the viruses -- 14. Eradication: the beginning of the end -- 15. 'Annihilation of the smallpox' -- 16. 'And out of good still to find means of evil' |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Smallpox -- History.
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| Author |
Glynn, Jenifer, author
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| LC no. |
00002617 |
| ISBN |
1861976089 |
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