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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:

2011, c2010

Description:

xxiv, 277 p. : map, photographs ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Mather, Cotton,--1663-1728.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
Smallpox--Boston--Boston--History--18th century.
Smallpox--History--Boston--Boston--History--18th century.
Medicine--Christianity.--Christianity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.

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:

1402260938 (pbk.)
9781402260933 (pbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)751798093

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)