The Life and Death of Smallpox

Klappentext A history of one of the most feared diseases! ending with a conditional human success story - the worldwide eradication of smallpox. Zusammenfassung A history of one of the most feared diseases! ending with a conditional human success story - the worldwide eradication of smallpox. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'The most terrible of all the ministers of death'; 2. From myths to mummies; 3. Coming into focus: 0 - 1500 AD; 4. Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500 AD to 1700 AD; 5. News from the east; 6. Kicking against the pricks; 7. The heyday of inoculation; 8. From cuckoos to cowpox; 9. The world-wide spread; 10. Confusion and compulsion; 11. A hundred years on; 12. 'Bring hither the fatted calf'; 13. Sorting out the viruses; 14. Eradication: the beginning of the end; 15. 'Annihilation of the smallpox'; 16. 'And out of good still to find means of evil'.

Klappentext
A history of one of the most feared diseases, ending with a conditional human success story - the worldwide eradication of smallpox.


Inhalt
1. 'The most terrible of all the ministers of death'; 2. From myths to mummies; 3. Coming into focus: 0 - 1500 AD; 4. Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500 AD to 1700 AD; 5. News from the east; 6. Kicking against the pricks; 7. The heyday of inoculation; 8. From cuckoos to cowpox; 9. The world-wide spread; 10. Confusion and compulsion; 11. A hundred years on; 12. 'Bring hither the fatted calf'; 13. Sorting out the viruses; 14. Eradication: the beginning of the end; 15. 'Annihilation of the smallpox'; 16. 'And out of good still to find means of evil'.

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