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Author Glynn, Ian.

Title The life and death of smallpox / Ian and Jenifer Glynn.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  RC183.1 .G58 2004    Available  ---
Description x, 278 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-268) and index.
Contents 'The most terrible of all the ministers of death' -- From myths to mummies -- Coming into focus: AD 0 to 1500 -- Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500-1700 -- News from the east -- Kicking against the pricks -- The heyday of inoculation -- From cuckoos to cowpox -- The world-side spread -- Confusion and compulsion -- A hundred years on -- 'Bring hither the fatted calf' -- Sorting out the viruses -- Eradication: the beginning of the end -- 'Annihilation of the smallpox' -- 'And out of good still to find means of evil'.
Subject Smallpox -- History.
Smallpox.
History.
Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History.
Smallpox -- Vaccination.
Bioterrorism.
Bioterrorism.
Added Author Glynn, Jenifer.
ISBN 0521845424