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The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 18,674 ratings — published 2002
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,565 ratings — published 2003
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,872 ratings — published 2001
Pox: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.69 — 881 ratings — published 2011
Code Orange (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,338 ratings — published 2005
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.11 — 386 ratings — published 2009
Rebellion 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,452 ratings — published 2025
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.99 — 71 ratings — published 2010
The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,428 ratings — published 1999
Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.42 — 672 ratings — published 2015
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.74 — 802 ratings — published 2016
The Fever Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,221 ratings — published 2012
The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.52 — 52 ratings — published 1983
Bleak House (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.02 — 116,510 ratings — published 1853
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.01 — 276 ratings — published 2022
The Life and Death of Smallpox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.41 — 34 ratings — published 2004
Smallpox: A History 1st Edition by S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler (2013) Paperback
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.75 — 46,012 ratings — published 2023
Lady Tan's Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.35 — 228,152 ratings — published 2023
The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,178 ratings — published 2006
Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.83 — 58 ratings — published
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 2000
The Robber Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.95 — 352 ratings — published 2021
Hope's Highest Mountain (Hearts of Montana, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,515 ratings — published 2019
The Grace Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.12 — 262,639 ratings — published 2019
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,525 ratings — published 2017
The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America's Destiny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.30 — 142 ratings — published 2010
The Raven Prince (Princes Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,337 ratings — published 2006
Caroline's Comets: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.81 — 390 ratings — published 2017
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,311 ratings — published 2017
The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake (Disaster)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.96 — 458 ratings — published 2016
Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.76 — 449 ratings — published 2003
The Pursuit (Fox and O'Hare, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,835 ratings — published 2016
Frog Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.20 — 27,053 ratings — published 2014
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.83 — 544 ratings — published 2001
Een schitterend gebrek (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,206 ratings — published 2003
Catch the Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.36 — 14 ratings — published 1987
River of Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.53 — 57 ratings — published 1994
The Great Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.56 — 287 ratings — published 2009
I Am Pilgrim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.31 — 207,353 ratings — published 2013
Imperial Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,403 ratings — published 1956
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.89 — 47,039 ratings — published 2006
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.63 — 334 ratings — published 2012
The Smallpox Genocide of the Odawa Tribe at L'Arbre Croche, 1763: The History of a Native American People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2007
“The word 'vaccination' comes from vacca, the Latin word for 'cow'. This is a poignant recapitulation of the history of vaccines. The first vaccine properly so called had, as its active ingredient, the cowpox virus, a close relative of smallpox that however was much less likely to cause severe, disfiguring or lethal disease. Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids, who were often exposed to cowpox, suffered a relatively mild disease, but would be immune to the much more serious smallpox.
In an experiment that would unlikely pass muster in the modern world, he infected James Phipps, then an 8-year-old, with cowpox. He suffered a mild and transient illness, but when he was later exposed to scabs from a smallpox patient, he proved immune.
Unlike the earlier practice of variolation, which has been practised in late Song dynasty China that sought to induce the cutaneous form of smallpox, variola minor, to protect against the more severe forms of smallpox (variola major), Jenner's vaccination used a less pathogenic virus.
He relied on what would later be called 'antigenic similarity', but which was at the time hardly understood.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
In an experiment that would unlikely pass muster in the modern world, he infected James Phipps, then an 8-year-old, with cowpox. He suffered a mild and transient illness, but when he was later exposed to scabs from a smallpox patient, he proved immune.
Unlike the earlier practice of variolation, which has been practised in late Song dynasty China that sought to induce the cutaneous form of smallpox, variola minor, to protect against the more severe forms of smallpox (variola major), Jenner's vaccination used a less pathogenic virus.
He relied on what would later be called 'antigenic similarity', but which was at the time hardly understood.”
― Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
“Or look at the status of women, about which finally the planet is coming to its senses in our own time. Or even things like smallpox and other disfiguring and fatal diseases, diseases of children, that were once thought to be an inevitable, God-given part of life. The clergy argued, and some still do, that those diseases were sent by God as a scourge for mankind. Now there are no more cases of smallpox on the planet. For a few tens of millions of dollars and the efforts of physicians from a hundred countries, coordinated by the World Health Organization, smallpox has been removed from the planet Earth.”
― The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
― The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
