The Speckled Monster 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.
Jennifer Lee Carrell is a Ph.D. holder. He holds a bachelor's degree in English and American literature from Harvard University and is the author of The Speckled Monster: A Historical Story of Smallpox Battles. Carrell has taught history and literature at Harvard and directed Shakespeare for Harvard's Hyperion Theatre Company, in addition to writing for Smithsonian magazine. She currently resides in Tucson, AZ.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525947363 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525947361 |
| Title | The Speckled Monster |
| Author | Jennifer Lee Carrell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2003-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 474 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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