Life and Death of Smallpox

Name: Life and Death of Smallpox
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ISBN: 9780521845427

ISBN-10: 0521845424

ISBN-13: 9780521845427

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ian Glynn, Jenifer Glynn

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"The most terrible of all the ministers of death." Thomas Macauley Mozart, Voltaire, Elizabeth I and Abraham Lincoln all had it--and survived. Millions did not. The scourge of smallpox affected rich and poor alike, killing many and disfiguring the rest. 'Cures' included bleeding, purging, oil of scorpions and even crabs' eyes. Edward Jenner's breakthrough in 1796 started the slow, often controversial, process of controlling the virus. By 1979 smallpox had become the first-ever disease to be eradicated. Yet, today, its possible use in biological warfare presents a major threat. This is an accessible account of the history, and possible future, of a terrifying disease. Ian Glynn is Professor…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Warwick Collins is the author of a number of previously acclaimed novels, including the two other works in the trilogy, The Marriage Of Souls and The Rationalist, Computer One and the international best-seller, Gents.




'The most terrible of all the ministers of death'



From myths to mummies



Coming into focus: 0 - 1500 AD



Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500 AD to 1700 AD



News from the east



Kicking against the pricks



The heyday of inoculation



From cuckoos to cowpox



The world-wide 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'