Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
Physical Description |
xiii, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher, son of the president of Harvard College; Zabdiel Boylston, a doctor whose name is on one of Boston's grand avenues; James and his younger brother Benjamin Franklin; and Elisha Cooke and his protege; Samuel Adams. |
Subject |
Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History.
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Smallpox -- Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Medicine -- United States -- History.
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