The life and death of smallpox / Ian and Jenifer Glynn.

London : Profile Books, 2004.

x, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

'The most terrible of all the ministers of death' -- From myths to mummies -- Coming into focus: AD 0 to 1500 -- Smallpox in the age of discoveries: 1500-1700 -- News from the East -- Kicking against the pricks -- The heyday of inoculation -- From cuckoos to cowpox -- The world-wide spread -- Confusion and compulsion -- A hundred years on -- 'Bring hither the fatted calf' -- Sorting out the viruses -- Eradication: the beginning of the end -- 'Annihilation of the smallpox' -- 'And out of good still to find means of evil'.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-268) and index.