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The Speckled Monster 

A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox 

by

Jennifer Lee Carrell

The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

(2003)
A non fiction book by

Jennifer Lee Carrell

 

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 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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Hardback Editions

December 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0756786215Title: Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
Author(s): Jennifer Lee Carrell
ISBN: 0-7567-8621-5 / 978-0-7567-8621-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
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June 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0525947361Title: The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling the Smallpox Epidemic
Author(s): Jennifer Lee Carrell
ISBN: 0-525-94736-1 / 978-0-525-94736-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Dutton Adult
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Paperback Editions

January 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0452285070Title: The Speckled Monster
Author(s): Jennifer Lee Carrell
ISBN: 0-452-28507-0 / 978-0-452-28507-1 (USA edition)
Publisher: Plume
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Audio Editions

August 2003 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0736694811Title: Speckled Monster
Author(s): Jennifer Lee Carrell
ISBN: 0-7366-9481-1 / 978-0-7366-9481-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Books on Tape
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