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Author Coss, Stephen, author.

Title The fever of 1721 : the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics / Stephen Coss.

Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

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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.
Smallpox -- Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Medicine -- United States -- History.