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Dutton/Penguin, 2003-12-30. Hardcover. Used: Good.
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Speckled Monster A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox Hardcover - 2003
by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Summary
A timely book about history's first desperate efforts to conquer smallpoxThe Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again.Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.
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EARLY in December 1694, an assassin emerged from the streets of London to sneak westward across the park, slip unseen through the halls of Kensington Palace, and attack the beautiful and beloved young queen.
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- Title Speckled Monster A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
- Author Jennifer Lee Carrell
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Diane Pub Co
- Date December 30, 2003
- ISBN 9780756786212
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