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The speckled monster a historical tale of battling smallpox

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...

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Main Author:	Carrell, Jennifer Lee (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Plume Book [2003]
Subjects:	Boylston, Zabdiel > 1679-1766 Montagu, Mary Wortley > Lady > 1689-1762 Smallpox > History Smallpox > history Smallpox Vaccine > history
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