The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox by Jennifer Lee Carrell

The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

Jennifer Lee Carrell

512 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 slave...

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