The Greatest Killer

Smallpox in History

By: Donald R. Hopkins

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Paperback | 15 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Once known as the "great fire" or "spotted death," smallpox has been rivaled only by plague as a source of supreme terror. Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, recent terrorist attacks in the United States have raised the possibility that someone might craft a deadly biological weapon from stocks of the virus that remain in known or perhaps unknown laboratories.

In The Greatest Killer, Donald R. Hopkins provides a fascinating account of smallpox and its role in human history. Starting with its origins 10,000 years ago in Africa or Asia, Hopkins follows the disease through the ancient and modern worlds, showing how smallpox removed or temporarily incapacitated heads of state, halted or exacerbated wars, and devastated populations that had never been exposed to the disease. In Hopkins's history, smallpox was one of the most dangerous-and influential-factors that shaped the course of world events.

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"This book tells the terrible history of smallpox, a saga that has new relevance given the awful possibility that someone might unleash the disease once again. It is a superb book." - former President Jimmy Carter

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General History of Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Diseases & Disorders Infectious & Contagious Diseases History General & World History Science Science in General History of Science

Specific Events & Topics in History Biology, Life Sciences

Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction--January 2002	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Variola Rex	p. 1
The Most Terrible of All the Ministers of Death	p. 22
Heavenly Flowers	p. 103
Kiss of the Goddess	p. 139
The Spotted Death	p. 164
The Great Fire	p. 204
A Destroying Angel	p. 234
Erythrotherapy and Eradication	p. 295
Chronology	p. 311
Notes	p. 319
Bibliographical Note	p. 325
References	p. 329
Index	p. 362
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