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Title The pox and the covenant : Mather, Franklin, and the epidemic that changed America's destiny / Tony Williams.
Author Williams, Tony, 1970-
Publication Info. Naperville, IL : Sourcebooks, c2010.
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Description xxiv, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography 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.
Subject Smallpox -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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.
ISBN 9781402236051 : $24.99
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