Speckled Monster A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

Name: Speckled Monster A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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ISBN: 9780452285071

ISBN-10: 0452285070

ISBN-13: 9780452285071

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Authors: Jennifer Lee Carrell

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The Speckled Monstertells 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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jennifer Lee Carrellis the author of The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpoxand holds her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard University as well as other degrees in English Literature from Oxford and Stanford universities. She has also taught at Harvard and directed Shakespeare plays for Harvards Hyperion Theatre Company. This is her first novel.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



London



Two Marys



Three Rebellions



A Destroying Angel



Bidding the World Adieu



My Dear Little Son



Rosebuds in Lily Skin



Boston



Zabdiel and Jerusha



Curiosities of the Smallpox



The Beauty of the Sea



Caging the Monster



Demonic Wings



Fathers and Sons



Hell Upon Earth



Salutation Alley



Prying Multitudes



An Infusion of Malignant Filth



The Castle of Misery



Signs and Wonders



Newgate



An Hour of Mourning



The King's Pardon



Raw Head and Bloody Bones



Just Retribution



In Royal Fashion


Aftermath



Meetings and Partings



The Practice



The People


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