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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
de Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Librería
-
New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, New York, U.S.A.: E. P. Dutton, 2003. 2d . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Fine. Large, heavy book, black cloth spine, light yellow boards, three very tiny brown spots at front right, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 474 pages plus brief biographical note. DJ beneath mylar, color-illustration of family and doctor at top front, color-illustration of smallpox cells at bottom front and back, a color-illustration of a woman and proclamation at top back. Very Fine DJ/Very Good book.
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
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 44149
- Título
- The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
- Autor
- Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 2d
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Editorial
- E. P. Dutton
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Palabras clave
- Health Medicine Disease Smallpox
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Medicine; Health;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Callaghan Books South
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
Sobre Callaghan Books South
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