"Doctor Therne" by H. Rider Haggard is a thrilling book that took the world by storm. In this text, Haggard narrates a smallpox epidemic that sweeps England, which was written as an attack upon the anti-vaccinationist movement of the time. Written in the years following the largest and most widespread epidemic of this illness, the book helped remind wary readers how useful and essential vaccines and medicine was to maintaining the health of society.
