Smallpox : a history / S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler.

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]

423 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Smallpox from time immemorial -- Enter inoculation -- Smallpox in the new world -- Cotton Mather and smallpox inoculation in the American colonies -- This distemper is the king of terrors: smallpox and the American Revolution -- The father of immunology -- This inestimable discovery -- The state of medicine is worse than that of total ignorance -- The battle for vaccination in the early years of the republic -- Testimonies to the high value of esteem -- Compulsory vaccination -- The health and well-being of the general populace -- The vaccine institution and beyond -- The American Indian vaccination act -- Quarantines and death statistics -- The quarantine wars -- The contagion of smallpox -- The blue, the gray and the speckled -- The last full measure of devotion -- The non-eradication of smallpox in England -- The Franco-Prussian War and the smallpox pandemic of 1870-1874 -- Case studies of misdiagnosis -- Smallpox: variola, varioloid and vaccinia -- The Hoffman block outrage and other stories -- Smallpox in Canada and England through the 1880s -- Providence does a great deal for us, the city fathers nothing -- Of rags and railroads -- School boards win some and lose some -- Anti-vaccination hysteria in Great Britain -- Incidence of smallpox worldwide up to the 20th century -- New century, old problems -- Vaccination creeds, homeopathic pills and lettuce -- Vaccination is un-American -- As the world turns: the continuing scourge -- Soldiers, the law and old-fashioned smallpox -- International public health -- A new biological philosophy -- The decade of the 1970s: conflicting reports -- Stamping out smallpox.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-418) and index.