Smallpox: a history

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"Scientifically known as Variola major, the deadliest form of smallpox has plagued mankind since 'time immemorial.' This text chronicles the worldwide effects of the killer disease, with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, including the devastations of the "speckled disease" during great armed conflicts."--

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Full title :Smallpox : a history / S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler.

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Publication Date:2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Place of Publication:Jefferson, North Carolina
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

The Physical Object

Description:423 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780786468232, 0786468238
oclc:ocn793581434
LC Classification:RC183.1
Dewey Decimal:614.5/21

Smallpox "from time immemorial" -- Enter inoculation -- Smallpox in the new world -- Cotton Mather and smallpox inoculation in the American colonies -- "This distemper is the king of terrors": smallpox and the American Revolution -- The father of immunology -- "This inestimable discovery" -- "The state of medicine is worse than that of total ignorance" -- The battle for vaccination in the early years of the republic -- Testimonies to the high value of esteem -- Compulsory vaccination -- The health and well-being of the general populace -- The vaccine institution and beyond -- The American Indian Vaccination Act -- Quarantines and death statistics -- The quarantine wars -- The contagion of smallpox -- The blue, the gray and the speckled -- The last full measure of devotion -- The non-eradication of smallpox in England -- The Franco-Prussian War and the smallpox pandemic of 1870-1874 -- Case studies of misdiagnosis -- Smallpox: variola, varioloid and vaccinia -- The Hoffman block outrage and other stories -- Smallpox in Canada and England through the 1880s -- "Providence does a great deal for us, the city fathers nothing" -- Of rags and railroads -- School boards win some and lose s…

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History History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Smallpox Smallpox -- history Smallpox Vaccine -- history Smittkoppor -- historia Variole -- Histoire