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The speckled monster : a historical tale of battling smallpox / Jennifer Lee Carrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carrell, Jennifer Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smallpox--History--Popular works.
- Smallpox.
- Smallpox--history.
- Smallpox Vaccine--history.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Smallpox--history.
- Smallpox Vaccine--history.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, [2003]
- Summary:
- What is it like to be caught in the terror and chaos of a smallpox epidemic when you and those you love are unprotected? What is it like to get small-pox, or to watch your children battle the disease? The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story -- both historical and timely -- of two parents who dared to fight back against the disease. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they both flouted eighteenth-century European medical tradition 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 the cities of London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.
- Contents:
- London
- Two Marys
- Three rebellions
- A destroying angel
- Bidding the world adieu
- A dear little son
- Rosebuds in lily skin
- Boston
- Zabdiel & Jerusha
- Curiosities of the smallpox
- The beauty of the sea
- Caging the demon
- Dr. William Douglass
- Fathers and sons
- Hell upon earth
- Salutation alley
- Prying multitudes
- An infusion of malignant filth
- The castle of misery
- Signs and wonders
- Newgate
- An hour of mourning
- The King's pardon
- Raw head and bloody bones
- Just retribution
- In royal fashion
- Aftermath
- Final encounters
- The practice
- The people.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-474).
- ISBN:
- 0525947361
- OCLC:
- 51336862
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