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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].
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 2339
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745.
- 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
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