| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 350 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Trouble near. Idol of the mob ; James and Benjamin ; The fallen angel -- Grievous calamity. The most terrible minister of death ; His Majesty's Ship Seahorse ; Pestilence and politics ; Onesimus ; The experiment ; Malignant filth ; America's first independent newspaper ; The cup which I fear ; The Hell-Fire Club ; A man on a cross ; The deadliest time ; Honest wags ; The assassination attempt ; A death in the house ; Pointed satyr ; An epidemic's end -- American monsters. Sons of Cato, sons of Calef ; The invention of Silence Dogood ; The arrest of James Franklin ; The printer and his devil ; Three exits. |
| Summary |
Discusses the smallpox epidemic of 1721 in Boston, Massachusetts, where the argument for inoculation raged between noteworthy Bostonians Cotton Mather and William Douglass amid political turmoil that sowed the seeds of revolution. |
| Subject |
Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History.
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Smallpox -- Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Medicine -- United States -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
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Smallpox -- Vaccination.
(OCoLC)fst01121530
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781476783086 (hardback) |
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147678308X (hardback) |
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9781476783116 (trade paper) |
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147678311X (trade paper) |
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