Author: Glynn, Ian ; & Glynn, Jenifer
Title: The Life and Death of Smallpox
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2004). orig.boards. 24x15cm, x,278 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: ’The most terrible of all the ministers of death’ -- From myths to mummies -- Coming into focus: AD 0 to 1500 -- Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500-1700 -- News from the East -- Kicking against the pricks -- The heyday of inoculation -- From cuckoos to cowpox -- The world-wide spread -- Confusion and compulsion -- A hundred years on -- ’Bring hither the fatted calf’ -- Sorting out the viruses -- Eradication: the beginning of the end -- ’Annihilation of the smallpox’ -- ’And out of good still to find means of evil’.

Keywords: History of Medicine, Smallpox, Disease, Diseases, Medical, , , ,