A destroying angel
Subtitle: the conquest of smallpox in colonial Boston
By: by Ola Elizabeth Winslow ; illustrated with photographs
Publisher: Houghton-Mifflin Company
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780395184530
Copyright date: 1974
Subjects: Smallpox -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Smallpox -- History -- Massachusetts.; Smallpox -- Occurrence -- Massachusetts.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [127]-130.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: An unprofessional medical background; title: A half century of pastor-physicians; title: Five major outbreaks in one lifetime span; title: First hope from far places; title: One practitioner for each thousand residents; title: Boston's Great Plague Year, 1721; title: England's promoter of inoculation was a titled lady; title: Zabdiel Boylston in London; title: Zabdiel Boylston's An Historical Account, 1726; title: War of words; title: Two generations of doubtful practice; title: Edward Jenner's Inquiry, 1798; title: Benjamin Waterhouse's campaign in Boston; title: Epilogue