| Description |
xxiv, 277 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A killer lurking -- Walking around Boston -- Contagion -- Ordinary and extraordinary concerns -- At the pulpit -- A consult of physicians -- Dr. Boylston responds -- Social disharmony -- The Brothers Franklin -- For and against inoculation -- "My dying children" -- Death's head -- Life-giving fires -- "The afflicted still multiply" -- "Cotton Mather, you dog, damn you!" -- The final Boston inoculations. |
| Subject |
Smallpox -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
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Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Boston. |
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History, 18th Century -- Boston. |
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Religion and Medicine -- Boston. |
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Smallpox Vaccine -- history -- Boston. |
| ISBN |
9781402236051 |
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1402236050 |
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