At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity by William R. Clark
At War Within: The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity by William R. Clark
English | Nov 30, 1995 | ISBN: 0195092864 | 289 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | Nov 30, 1995 | ISBN: 0195092864 | 289 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
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…entirely harmless."