[DOC] [TLE] The Fight Over Inoculation During the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic [PAR] Dec 31, 2014 ... The smallpox epidemic that struck Boston in 1721 was one of the most deadly of 
... Smallpox is an ancient disease caused by the Variola virus. ... Inoculation 
against smallpox is believed to have been practiced in China as far ... But as the 
epidemic began to diminish in early 1722, Mather and Boylston had... [DOC] [TLE] The Boston Smallpox Epidemic, 1721 - Open Collections Program [PAR] Between April and December 1721, 5,889 Bostonians had smallpox, and 844 
died of it. ... passion against inoculation on the grounds that it could spread the 
disease ... Only one physician, Zabdiel Boylston, publicly supported Mather's 
efforts... [DOC] [TLE] Mass Moments: Dr. Boylston Experiments with Smallpox Inoculation [PAR] ...in 1721, Boston doctor Zabdiel Boylston took a gamble with his young ... that in 
Africa people did not fear the disease that so terrified Europeans. ... When an 
epidemic broke out in Boston in 1721, Mather wanted to try this method. ... 
However, when those Boylston inoculated survived, the tide of public opinion 
began to turn... [DOC] [TLE] A "Doubtful and Dangerous Practice": The 1721 Boston Inoculation ... [PAR] In 1721, residents of Boston began to fall ill with smallpox, in what would become 
the ... Their efforts were unsuccessful, for the disease infected over half of the 
city's ... What made this epidemic unique was a concurrent debate about 
inoculation, ... Many Bostonians angrily opposed Mather and physician Zabdiel 
Boylston,... [DOC] [TLE] How an African slave helped Boston fight smallpox - The Boston Globe [PAR] Oct 17, 2014 ... A terrible epidemic came in 1721, infecting roughly half of Boston's 11,000 
residents. ... But as Bostonians knew, the next epidemic was always just over the 
horizon. ... Cotton Mather) to the global crusade against infectious disease. ... an 
apothecary named Zabdiel Boylston, who began by inoculating his... [DOC] [TLE] Amazon.com: The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized ... [PAR] Buy The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and ... It was 
Doctor Zabdiel Boylston who started inoculations against small pox during the ... I 
was expecting this book to be a history focused on disease and medicine, ... 
Bostonians believed that England would smite Massachusetts before God did [DOC] [TLE] Smallpox Inoculation Debate of 1721 | Skeptoid [PAR] Jun 10, 2014 ... But it wasn't until the inoculation debate of 1721 that Mather's role in the trials ... 
Terrified of the contacting disease, Samuel moved back into his father's house. ... 
Only one, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, initially responded. .... The African Connection: 
Cotton Mather and the Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721-1722. [DOC] [TLE] The Slave Who Transformed Cotton Mather From Witch Hunter Into ... [PAR] Jul 3, 2016 ... "Mather was fascinated by what Onesimus knew of inoculation practices ... and 
put a little drop of the disease into the bloodstream," explained Widmer. ... Boston 
in 1721, Mather enlisted Zabdiel Boylston, one of the few physicians of ... "People 
began to realize that Bostonians who did nothing were dying at... [DOC] [TLE] Cotton Mather - Wikipedia [PAR] Cotton Mather, FRS was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan 
minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. He left a scientific legacy due to his 
hybridization experiments and his promotion of inoculation for disease .... Mather 
began to publicize and celebrate the trials well before they were put to an end: "If 
in... [DOC] [TLE] 02-017t (Smallpox in New England) - Brown University [PAR] Dec 12, 2002 ... Bostonians knew of few interventions to slow the spread of smallpox. ... In the last 
decade of the fifteenth century a new infectious disease, ... Mather was minister to 
the Second Church of Boston when the smallpox epidemic of 1721 began. ... 
Mather and his friend Zabdiel Boylston, through their advocacy of... [DOC] [TLE] Religious Conviction and The Boston Inoculation Controversy of ... [PAR] Jan 13, 2011 ... response to the outbreak of the disease. ... makes the presence of an inoculation 
debate in Boston in 1721

Question: In 1721 Zabdiel Boylston began inoculating Bostonians against an outbreak of this disease
Answer: Smallpox