Smallpox

S.L. Kotar of St. Louis has been writing (together with J.E. Gessler) for more than four decades, beginning with scripts for television’s Gunsmoke. J.E. Gessler lives in St. Louis.

Table of Contents


Preface

 1. Smallpox “from time immemorial”

 2. Enter Inoculation

 3. Smallpox in the New World

 4. Cotton Mather and Smallpox Inoculation in the American Colonies

 5. “This Distemper Is the King of Terrors”: Smallpox and the American Revolution

 6. The Father of Immunology

 7. “This inestimable discovery”

 8. “The state of medicine is worse than that of total ignorance”

 9. The Battle for Vaccination in the Early Years of the Republic

10. Testimonies to the High Value of Esteem

11. Compulsory Vaccination

12. The Health and Well-Being of the General Populace

13. The Vaccine Institution and Beyond

14. The American Indian Vaccination Act

15. Quarantines and Death Statistics

16. The Quarantine Wars

17. The Contagion of Smallpox

18. The Blue, the Gray and the Speckled

19. The Last Full Measure of Devotion

20. The Non-Eradication of Smallpox in England

21. The Franco-Prussian War and the Smallpox Pandemic of 1870–1874

22. Case Studies of Misdiagnosis

23. Smallpox: Variola, Varioloid and Vaccinia

24. The Hoffman Block Outrage and Other Stories

25. Smallpox in Canada and England Through the 1880s

26. “Providence does a great deal for us, the city fathers nothing”

27. Of Rags and Railroads

28. School Boards Win Some and Lose Some

29. Anti-Vaccination Hysteria in Great Britain

30. Incidence of Smallpox Worldwide Up to the 20th Century

31. New Century, Old Problems

32. Vaccination Creeds, Homeopathic Pills and Lettuce

33. Vaccination is Un-American

34. As the World Turns—The Continuing Scourge

35. Soldiers, the Law and Old-Fashioned Smallpox

36. International Public Health

37. A New Biological Philosophy

38. The Decade of the 1970s—Conflicting Reports

39. Stamping Out Smallpox

A Glossary of Medicine in the 19th Century

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index