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The Speckled Monster: a Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox

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The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of 2 parents who dared to fight back against smallpox.  After slightly surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern girls in frantic bids to offer protection to their kids.  From their heroic struggles stems the brand new science of immunology in addition to the vaccinations that remain our most effective hope will have to the disease ever be unleashed again.

Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to inform 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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