A friendly debate; or, A dialogue, between Academicus; and Sawney & Mundungus, two eminent physicians, about some of their late performances. : [Five lines of verse from Otway].

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745.

Contributor:

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.

Walter, Thomas, 1696-1725.

Boylston, Zabdiel, 1679-1766, dedicatee.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2339.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752.

Williams, John. Several arguments, proving, that inoculating the small pox is not contained in the law of physick.

Smallpox--Vaccination--Anecdotes.

Smallpox--Vaccination--Massachusetts--Boston.

Smallpox--Vaccination.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

Dialogues.

Satires.

Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, ii, 24 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Other Title:

Friendly debate; or, A dialogue, between Academicus; and Sawney & Mundungus.

Place of Publication:

Boston: in N.E. : Printed [by Bartholomew Green?], in the year, MDCCXXII. [1722]

Notes:

Satirical debate directed against Dr. William Douglas (Sawney) and John Williams (Mundungus), opponents of smallpox inoculation at Boston. Cf. Holmes.

Attributed to Isaac Greenwood, with the collaboration of Cotton Mather, by Holmes. Evans notes that Trumbull considered Mather's nephew Thomas Walter the possible author.

Dedicated to Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.

Printer's name suggested by Holmes.

Appendix, containing a vocabulary of the Mundungian language, p. 22-24.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2339).

Cited in:

Evans 2339

Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 137

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 840

OCLC:

55815066