A reply to the objections made against taking the small pox in the way of inoculation from principles of conscience
Subtitle: in a letter to a friend in the country
By: by a minister in Boston
Edition: The third impresiion [sic].
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 3270; Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: Printed for S. Gerrish in Corn-hill, and J. Phillips at the Stationers Arms near the town-dock
Published: 1730
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Smallpox; Vaccination; Prevention & control
Other titles: Reply to the religious scruples against inoculating the small-pox; Reply to the religious scruples against inoculating the small-pox
Notes: Headpieces.

"To the reader" (dated March 4, 1729-30) signed on p. iv: W. Cooper. This disproves former attribution of the work to Cotton Mather.

First published anonymously in Boston in 1721 under title: A letter to a friend in the country, attempting a solution of the scruples and objections of a conscientious or religious nature, commonly made against the new way of receiving the small-pox. The second edition was published in London in 1722 with Benjamin Colman's A narrative of the method and success of inoculating the small pox in New England. Evans incorrectly hypothecates two previous Boston editions in 1730, which he numbers 3268 and 3269.

Published in Edinburgh in 1791 under title: A reply to the religious scruples against inoculating the smallpox.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

No restrictions on access copy.

Evans 3270

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 539

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 98

ESTC (RLIN) W21818

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Table of contents: title: "Postscript ... A scheme of natural principles": p. 14-[16].