The life and death of smallpox
By: Ian and Jenifer Glynn.
Contributors: Glynn, Jenifer.
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Smallpox -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'The most terrible of all the ministers of death'; title: From myths to mummies; title: Coming into focus: AD 0 to 1500; title: Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500-1700; title: News from the East; title: Kicking against the pricks; title: The heyday of inoculation; title: From cuckoos to cowpox; title: The world-wide spread; title: Confusion and compulsion; title: A hundred years on; title: 'Bring hither the fatted calf'; title: Sorting out the viruses; title: Eradication: the beginning of the end; title: 'Annihilation of the smallpox'; title: 'And out of good still to find means of evil'.