The Smallpox Slayer (Literary Non-Fiction)

by Alan James Brown

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The amazing true story of one man's fight against a deadly disease. Eighteenth-century Doctor Edward Jenner saved millions of people from smallpox and other diseases by developing vaccination - and paved the way for future advances in medical science. The story starts dramatically, with Jenner deliberately infecting 8-year-old James Phipps first with cowpox and then with deadly smallpox. Will he survive? We follow Jenner's progress in the battle against smallpox, struggling against ignorance and prejudice as well as the killer virus itself. It includes a 4-page section of colour photos.
  • ISBN10 0340787732
  • ISBN13 9780340787731
  • Publish Date 15 February 2001
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 9 December 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hachette Children's Group
  • Imprint Hodder Children's Books
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 96
  • Language English