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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
by Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG DW
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Seller
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WINTERTON, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Dutton Books, 2003. In fine condition BUT faint marks to front cover and top of spine a little bumped. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 100g.. 1st Printing. Hardback. VG+/VG DW.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- kb814.150
- Title
- The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
- Author
- Carrell, Jennifer Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG DW
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525947361
- ISBN 13
- 9780525947363
- Publisher
- Dutton Books
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2003
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About the Seller
Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)
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WINTERTON, Lincolnshire
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