The Speckled Monster

Name: The Speckled Monster
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ISBN: 9780452285071

A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

Jennifer Lee Carrell

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English

Plume
27 January 2004

General & world history; History of medicine; Infectious & contagious diseases

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.

By: Jennifer Lee Carrell
Imprint: Plume
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 465g
ISBN: 9780452285071
ISBN 10: 0452285070
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 27 January 2004
Audience: Children/juvenile , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , English as a second language , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer Lee Carrell holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Harvard University and is the author of The Speckled Monster- A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox. In addition to writing for Smithsonian magazine, Carrell has taught in the history and literature program at Harvard and has directed Shakespeare for Harvard's Hyperion Theatre Company. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Reviews for The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

Highly engrossing...Carrell tells the gripping story with ardor and skill. Smithsonian Written in a compelling, almost novelistic voice, Carrelldetails two eighteenth-century figures who struggled valiantly against smallpox. The disease becomes a character in the book, claiming the poor, the rich, and the royal without distinction. USA Today