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 protégé Samuel Adams.
During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death—by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. “Inoculation” led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding, and Mather’s house was firebombed.
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 protégé Samuel Adams.
During the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try a procedure that he believed would prevent death—by making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox. “Inoculation” led to vaccination, one of the most profound medical discoveries in history. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding, and Mather’s house was firebombed.
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss
Stephen Coss Ebooks
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
Stephen Coss Ebook: The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss
Stephen Coss Ebooks
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
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