The life and death of smallpox / Ian and Jenifer Glynn.
Glynn, Ian.; Glynn, Jenifer.
2004
RC183.1 .G58 2004 (Mapit)
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Title The life and death of smallpox / Ian and Jenifer Glynn.
Author Glynn, Ian.
ISBN 0521845424
Imprint New York, NY : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
Language English
Description x, 278 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number RC183.1 .G58 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.9/12
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-268) and index.
Added Author Glynn, Jenifer.
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'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-wide 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'.

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