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Author Beall, Otho T.

Title Cotton Mather : first significant figure in American medicine / by Otho T. Beall, Jr., and Richard H. Shryock.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press [1954]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  922.573 B366C    Check Shelf
Description ix, 241 pages : portrait, facsimile ; 24 cm.
Series Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine ; 1st ser.: Monographs, v. 5
Contents On the rediscovery of Cotton Mather -- Mather's approach to medicine -- The medical background -- Mather's medicine in non-medical works -- History of "The angel of Bethesda" -- The nature of "the angel" -- Advent of preventative medicine, Boston, 1721 -- Conclusions : Mather's place in medicine -- Selected sections from "The angel."
Note "Reprinted from volume 63 of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society."
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes.
Subject Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
History of Medicine, 18th Century -- United States.
Added Author Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972.
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