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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'.
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'.