The life and death of smallpox
No other disease has such a long, dramatic, and terrible history as smallpox. It is the first (and so far the only) disease to be totally eradicated. But the scourge may come back in biological warfare.
History
x, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9781861976932, 9780521845427, 9781861976086, 1861976933, 0521845424, 1861976089
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'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-side 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'