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Author:
Williams, Tony, 1970-
Title:
The pox and the covenant : Mather, Franklin, and the epidemic that changed America's destiny / Tony Williams.
Publisher:
Sourcebooks,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xxiv, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Smallpox--Boston.--Boston.
Mather, Cotton,--1663-1728.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
Mather, Cotton,--1663-1728.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
Disease Outbreaks--history--Boston.
Smallpox--history--Boston.
History, 18th Century--Boston.
Religion and Medicine--Boston.
Smallpox Vaccine--history--Boston.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
ISBN:
1402236050
9781402236051
OCLC:
(OCoLC)430054421
LCCN:
2009042649
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)
KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

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