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