Prep for this week’s House by upping your smallpox knowledge

Check out that wicked cover! That’s how you know that, in its day, smallpox was some hardcore business. The wickedly titled Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox is brought to you by author Gareth Williams, and chronicles how smallpox ravaged humanity. Not to spoil the story or anything, but smallpox is eventually defeated by a rural doctor from the very metal sounding Gloucestershire area in the United Kingdom.

Anyway, beyond the obvious target audience of pre-med and people interested in medical things, on House this week, they’re leading us to believe that smallpox is back like the McRib, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that this is FINALLY lupus’s big week. Regardless, it might be fun to prep by finding out what the real smallpox was like.