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The pox and the covenant : Mather, Franklin, and the epidemic that changed America's destiny / Tony Williams.
Van Pelt Library RC183.5.M4 W55 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Tony, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smallpox--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Smallpox.
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
- Mather, Cotton.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Boston.
- Smallpox--history.
- History, 18th Century.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Smallpox Vaccine--history.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Medical Subjects:
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Boston.
- Smallpox--history.
- History, 18th Century.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Smallpox Vaccine--history.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 277 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781402236051
- 1402236050
- OCLC:
- 430054421
- Publisher Number:
- 99938106559
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