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(Paperback)
By: Jennifer Lee Carrell
ISBN: 9780452285071
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A timely study of early efforts to conquer smallpox offers a dramatic profile of two eighteenth-century health pioneers--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston--who flouted the European medical conventions of their era to draw on African folk knowledge and Eastern traditions to protect
