The pox and the covenant
Subtitle: Mather, Franklin, and the epidemic that changed America's destiny
By: Tony Williams.
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Naperville, IL
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781402236051
Subjects: Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728; Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790; Mather, Cotton, -- 1663-1728; Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790; Smallpox -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- Boston; Smallpox -- history -- Boston; History, 18th Century -- Boston; Religion and Medicine -- Boston; Smallpox Vaccine -- history -- Boston
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A killer lurking; title: Walking around Boston; title: Contagion; title: Ordinary and extraordinary concerns; title: At the pulpit; title: A consult of physicians; title: Dr. Boylston responds; title: Social disharmony; title: The Brothers Franklin; title: For and against inoculation; title: 'My dying children'; title: Death's head; title: Life-giving fires; title: 'The afflicted still multiply'; title: 'Cotton Mather, you dog, damn you!'; title: The final Boston inoculations.