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The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story - both historical and timely - of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they both flouted eighteenth-century European medical tradition 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.
Hardcover copy, Author: Carrell, Jennifer Lee, Putnam Publishing Group
