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'The most terrible of all the ministers of death' 2. From myths to mummies 3. Coming into focus: 0 - 1500 AD 4. Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500 AD to 1700 AD 5. News from the east 6. Kicking against the pricks 7. The heyday of inoculation 8. From cuckoos to cowpox 9. The world-wide spread 10. Confusion and compulsion 11. A hundred years on 12. 'Bring hither the fatted calf' 13. Sorting out the viruses 14. Eradication: the beginning of the end 15. 'Annihilation of the smallpox' 16. 'And out of good still to find means of evil'.
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