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    <body><![CDATA[This book is usually described as a historical novel about the discovery of the science of inoculation (against smallpox), but it's as much a social thriller as anything else. At times I could do with a little less detail about the yucks of smallpox, but even knowing the heroes saved the day in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67505529">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book about the beginning of small pox inoculation in England and America was extremely interesting.  Knowing nothing about small pox besides the fact that it was decimating in the past, made this book all the more interesting.  <br/><br/>It is a true story written as a novel with real histori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63328544">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intellectually acute, once beautiful Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was horribly disfigured by smallpox.  When her husband was appointed British Ambassador to Turkey early in the 18th century, she found most people untouched by smallpox—they had routinely been inoculated in childhood. Lady Montagu’s ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28754705">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned a lot from this book: history, medicine and the lives of two courageous people, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in England and Zabdiel Boylston in the American colonies. One thing that struck me was that people will form mobs and persecute for anything they don't fully understand - as they did w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15140520">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have any interest in immunology or 18th century American (colonial)/British history, you might just adore this book.<br/><br/>It is like a novel in that you are drawn into the story, woven into its weave as if you were a thread yourself.  Except, the characters, rather than fictitious frien...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12081098">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give this 3.5 stars. This is probably more information than anyone wants to know about smallpox. But, the actual facts and events surrounding the smallpox epidemics and innoculations were very interesting. It does have it's moments where it lags in the last half of the book, and more than on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78697240">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love books like this one.  This is a true story about the battle against smallpox.  We don't know how lucky we are.  We fear the swine flu, but this book made me realize just how much worse things could be. I love books about diseases (both fiction and nonfiction) and this one was really good.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69994334">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really more of a novelization of history than an actual history.  The author creates her own dialogue and much of the writing is purple.  I made it only a few pages.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The author writes about the smallpox epidemic and the first attempts at inoculation in a novelized form.  Very interesting to read and well researched.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so incredibly fascinating.  I decided not to include &quot;scholarly&quot; books on my goodreads, but this one is both fun and super-well-researched, so it straddles both worlds, to an extent.  I learned a ton from it, and not least to be grateful to only have ear infections to worry o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16856460">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[fascinating account of the eradication of small box - really enjoyed it and learned something, too!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The amount of research that appears to have gone into this book is stunning considering we're talking about the early 1700s.  I was surprised to learn how many personal correspondences related to the main characters have survived from that time period.  The biggest problem I had with it was that it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17348567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My mom recommended this book to me (because I am a science nut who enjoys reading about germs), and although it is quite different from my favorites (by Richard Preston), I still thought it was a great book about the history of smallpox innoculation.  It reads like a historical novel, and although I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17955717">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[excellent historical-fiction about smallpox.]]></body>
    
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