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Author Williams, Tony, 1970-

Title The pox and the covenant : Mather, Franklin, and the epidemic that changed America's destiny / Tony Williams.

Publication Info. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  614.521 WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.521 WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  614.521 WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  614.521 WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  614.521 WIL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  614.521 WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  614.5 WI    Check Shelf
Description xxiv, 277 pages : 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.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Boston.
Smallpox -- history -- Boston.
History, 18th Century -- Boston.
Religion and Medicine -- Boston.
Smallpox Vaccine -- history -- Boston.
ISBN 9781402236051
1402236050
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