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At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity
At War Within The DoubleEdged Sword of Immunity
Author: William R. Clark
In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer. Luck, more than anything else, decided who would live and who would die. That is, until Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat, moved to Constantinople and noticed the Turkish practice of "ingrafting" or inoculation, which, she wrote, made "the small- pox...entir...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195115680
ISBN-10: 0195115686
Publication Date: 3/27/1997
Pages: 292
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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