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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
de Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Librería
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Dutton. Very Good+. 2003. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. 0525947361 . Card covers show light shelf wear, some corner curl. ; A bright, solid book. This is the prepublication paper back sent out to booksellers and reviewers. ; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 451 pages; "A timely study of early efforts to conquer smallpox offers a dramatic profile of two eighteenth-century health pioneers--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston--who flouted the European medical conventions of their era to draw on African folk knowledge and Eastern traditions to protect their children, paving the way for the science of modern immunology." .
Sinopsis
The 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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Detalles
- Librería
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21543
- Título
- The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
- Autor
- Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- Uncorrected Proof
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Editorial
- Dutton
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Palabras clave
- 0525947361, Epidemiology, Smallpox
- Catálogos del vendedor
- SCIENCE;
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Ainsworth Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
Sobre Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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