The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus Ward Lucy
The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO…
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The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead one of the first global public health campaigns.A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FARShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 'Sparkling history...with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The TimesA killer virus...an all-powerful Empress...an encounter cloaked in secrecy...the astonishing true story.Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded disease. Over human history it has killed untold millions. Back in the eighteenth century, as epidemics swept Europe, the first rumours emerged of an effective treatment: a mysterious method called inoculation.But a key problem remained: convincing people to accept the preventative remedy, the forerunner of
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