Table of Contents

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