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A timely book about history's first desperate efforts to conquer smallpoxThe Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again.Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.
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The Speckled Monster
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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in English
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The speckled monster: a historical tale of battling smallpox
2004, Penguin Group
in English
0452285070 9780452285071
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Speckled Monster
August 2003, Books on Tape
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in English
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0736694811 9780736694810
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The speckled monster: a historical tale of battling smallpox
2003, Dutton
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0525947361 9780525947363
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Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
December 30, 2003, Diane Pub Co
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0756786215 9780756786212
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
May 29, 2003, Dutton Adult
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"EARLY in December 1694, an assassin emerged from the streets of London to sneak westward across the park, slip unseen through the halls of Kensington Palace, and attack the beautiful and beloved young queen."
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