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.
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Smallpox. |
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History. |
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Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History.
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Smallpox -- Vaccination. |
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Bioterrorism.
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Bioterrorism. |
Added Author |
Glynn, Jenifer.
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ISBN |
0521845424 |
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