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William R. Clark

At War Within

The Double-Edged Sword of Immunity

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In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer. Luck, more than anything else, decided who would live and who would die. That is, until Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat, moved to Constantinople and noticed the Turkish practice of ingrafting or inoculation, which, she wrote, made the small- pox...entirely harmless. Convinced by what she witnessed, she allowed her six-year-old son to be ingrafted, and the treatment was a complete success--the young Montagu enjoyed lifelong immunity from smallpox. Lady Montagu's discovery would, however, remain a quiet one; it would be almost 150 years before inoculation… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-802530-6
  • EAN: 9780198025306
  • Produktnummer: 13944759
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 14'046 KB
  • Abbildungen: 4 illus.

Über den Autor


William R. Clark, an internationally recognized authority on cellular immune responses, has taught immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles for the past twenty-five years. He is the author of The Experimental Foundations of Modern Immunology.

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