smallpox

Eradicating smallpox was one of the great medical success stories in human history. The disease once killed large numbers of people, but vaccination programs brought case numbers to zero by the 1970s. This book explores the history and science behind this disease, as well as how it's treated.

Tells the tale of five of history's most critical contagions and the havoc these diseases wreaked across the globe, including the bubonic plague, yellow fever, smallpox, Spanish influenza, and AIDS.

Contains two short stories by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Includes reading and writing activities.

Readers learn the facts about many of the worst health disasters in human history.

Explores the foundations of human biology: structure, genetics, and diseases.

Explores the history and impact of smallpox, which for thousands of years, was one of the world's most feared diseases.

Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.

This book explores some of history's most gruesome diseases. Readers will be enthralled by the history and science of terrible plagues and the bacteria, bugs, bad hygiene, and rats responsible.

Author Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial politics. Featured players were Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher and son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston's grand avenues; James Franklin and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protege, Samuel Adams. In 1721, during the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history, Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death--by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. "Inoculation" led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. But the public did not understand this. Outrage forced Boylston into hiding and Mather's house was firebombed. In the meantime, the colonies were chafing under the control of the English Crown and began thinking about independence, aided by Benjamin Franklin's skills as a journalist and printer. Between medicine and politics, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered for years and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution many years later.