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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New York
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[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- London
- Two Marys
- Three rebellions
- A destroying angel
- Bidding the world adieu
- A dear little son
- Rosebuds in lily skin
- Boston
- Zabdiel & Jerusha
- Curiosities of the smallpox
- The beauty of the sea
- Caging the demon
- Demonic wings
- Fathers and sons
- Hell upon earth
- Salutation alley
- Prying multitudes
- An infusion of malignant filth
- The castle of misery
- Signs and wonders
- Newgate
- An hour of mourning
- The King's pardon
- Raw head and bloody bones
- Just retribution
- In royal fashion
- Aftermath
- Meetings and partings
- The practice
- The people