# The Speckled Monster

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- Book: [The Speckled Monster](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-lee-carrell/the-speckled-monster) ([The Speckled Monster.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-lee-carrell/the-speckled-monster.md))
- Authors: [J. L. Carrell](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-lee-carrell)
- Publisher: Plume
- ISBN: 978-04-5228-507-1
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2004-01-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine...