The Speckled MonsterThe 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 children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again. Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known. |
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Contents
| xi | |
| 3 | |
| 15 | |
| 39 | |
Bidding the World Adieu | 56 |
My Dear Little Son | 72 |
Rosebuds in Lily Skin | 86 |
Zabdiel and Jerusha | 99 |
The Castle of Misery | 241 |
Signs and Wonders | 247 |
Newgate | 264 |
An Hour of Mourning | 278 |
The Kings Pardon | 296 |
Raw Head and Bloody Bones | 305 |
Just Retribution | 326 |
In Royal Fashion | 338 |
Curiosities of the Smallpox | 108 |
The Beauty of the Sea | 120 |
Caging the Monster | 142 |
Demonic Wings | 156 |
Fathers and Sons | 170 |
Salutation Alley | 193 |
Prying Multitudes | 213 |
An Infusion of Malignant Filth | 222 |
Meetings and Partings | 363 |
The Practice | 389 |
The People | 395 |
Notes | 401 |
Abbreviations | 447 |
Sources | 449 |
Bibliography | 465 |
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox Jennifer Lee Carrell Limited preview - 2004 |
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox Jennifer Lee Carrell No preview available - 2004 |
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox Jennifer Lee Carrell No preview available - 2003 |
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