Smallpox: A HistoryScientifically 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. Specific attention is paid to the development and utilization of Dr. Edward Jenner's vaccination, chronicling the anti-vaccination movement, the evolving concept of compulsory vaccination and the global march toward eradication. Legal and moral challenges, the National Vaccine Institute, the treatment of American Indians and African Americans, immigrants, the often bloody quarantine battles, germ warfare, superstitions and home remedies are addressed from the historical perspectives of those who lived through and those who died of this scourge. |
Contents
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3 Smallpox in the New World | 24 |
4 Cotton Mather and Smallpox Inoculation in the American Colonies | 33 |
Smallpox and the American Revolution | 39 |
6 The Father of Immunology | 46 |
7 This inestimable discovery | 53 |
Variola Varioloid and Vaccinia | 191 |
24 The Hoffman Block Outrage and Other Stories | 204 |
25 Smallpox in Canada and England Through the 1880s | 212 |
26 Providence does a great deal for us the city fathers nothing | 224 |
27 Of Rags and Railroads | 237 |
28 School Boards Win Some and Lose Some | 246 |
29 AntiVaccination Hysteria in Great Britain | 257 |
30 Incidence of Smallpox Worldwide Up to the 20th Century | 262 |
8 The state of medicine is worse than that of total ignorance | 58 |
9 The Battle for Vaccination in the Early Years of the Republic | 64 |
10 Testimonies to the High Value of Esteem | 70 |
11 Compulsory Vaccination | 75 |
12 The Health and WellBeing of the General Populace | 86 |
13 The Vaccine Institution and Beyond | 101 |
14 The American Indian Vaccination Act | 109 |
15 Quarantines and Death Statistics | 116 |
16 The Quarantine Wars | 125 |
17 The Contagion of Smallpox | 137 |
18 The Blue the Gray and the Speckled | 143 |
19 The Last Full Measure of Devotion | 157 |
20 The NonEradication of Smallpox in England | 167 |
21 The FrancoPrussian War and the Smallpox Pandemic of 18701874 | 173 |
22 Case Studies of Misdiagnosis | 184 |
31 New Century Old Problems | 275 |
32 Vaccination Creeds Homeopathic Pills and Lettuce | 289 |
33 Vaccination Is UnAmerican | 298 |
34 As the World Turns The Continuing Scourge | 308 |
35 Soldiers the Law and OldFashioned Smallpox | 330 |
36 International Public Health | 343 |
37 A New Biological Philosophy | 356 |
38 The Decade of the 1970s Confl icting Reports | 370 |
39 Stamping Out Smallpox | 377 |
A Glossary of Medicine in the 19th Century | 387 |
Chapter Notes | 395 |
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