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The life and death of smallpox /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glynn, Ian
Other Authors: Glynn, Jenifer
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Smallpox > history.
Table of 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-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'