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The Resource The fever of 1721 : the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics, Stephen Coss, (electronic resource)
The fever of 1721 : the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics, Stephen Coss, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
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- "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. 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. A political fever also raged. Elisha Cooke was challenging the Crown for control of the colony and finally forced Royal Governor Samuel Shute to flee Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and the Patriots would build on this to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. And a bold young printer James Franklin (who was on the wrong side of the controversy on inoculation), launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenage brother and apprentice, Benjamin Franklin, however, learned his trade in James's shop and became a father of the Independence movement. One by one, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution"--
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Contents
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- Trouble year. Idol of the mob ; James and Benjamin ; The fallen angel
- Grievous calamity. The most terrible minister of death ; His Majesty's Ship Seahorse ; Pestilence and politics ; Onesimus ; The experiment ; Malignant filth ; America's first independent newspaper ; The cup which I fear ; The Hell-Fire Club ; A man on a cross ; The deadliest time ; Honest wags ; The assassination attempt ; A death in the house ; Pointed satyr ; An epidemic's end
- American monsters. Sons of Cato, sons of Calef ; The invention of Silence Dogood ; The arrest of James Franklin ; The printer and his devil ; Three exits
- Isbn
- 9781476783123
- Label
- The fever of 1721 : the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics
- Title
- The fever of 1721
- Title remainder
- the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Coss
- Subject
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- HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- History
- Medicine -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
- Downloadable e-Books
- Smallpox -- Vaccination | History
- Smallpox -- Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Electronic books
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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. 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. A political fever also raged. Elisha Cooke was challenging the Crown for control of the colony and finally forced Royal Governor Samuel Shute to flee Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and the Patriots would build on this to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. And a bold young printer James Franklin (who was on the wrong side of the controversy on inoculation), launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenage brother and apprentice, Benjamin Franklin, however, learned his trade in James's shop and became a father of the Independence movement. One by one, the atmosphere in Boston in 1721 simmered and ultimately boiled over, leading to the full drama of the American Revolution"--
- "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"--
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Coss, Stephen
- Dewey number
- 616.9/1200973
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RC183.1
- LC item number
- .C67 2016eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WC 588
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- Smallpox
- Smallpox
- Medicine
- HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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- The fever of 1721 : the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics, Stephen Coss, (electronic resource)
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
- Trouble year. Idol of the mob ; James and Benjamin ; The fallen angel -- Grievous calamity. The most terrible minister of death ; His Majesty's Ship Seahorse ; Pestilence and politics ; Onesimus ; The experiment ; Malignant filth ; America's first independent newspaper ; The cup which I fear ; The Hell-Fire Club ; A man on a cross ; The deadliest time ; Honest wags ; The assassination attempt ; A death in the house ; Pointed satyr ; An epidemic's end -- American monsters. Sons of Cato, sons of Calef ; The invention of Silence Dogood ; The arrest of James Franklin ; The printer and his devil ; Three exits
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- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
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- Isbn
- 9781476783123
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- Label
- The fever of 1721 : the epidemic that revolutionized medicine and American politics, Stephen Coss, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Trouble year. Idol of the mob ; James and Benjamin ; The fallen angel -- Grievous calamity. The most terrible minister of death ; His Majesty's Ship Seahorse ; Pestilence and politics ; Onesimus ; The experiment ; Malignant filth ; America's first independent newspaper ; The cup which I fear ; The Hell-Fire Club ; A man on a cross ; The deadliest time ; Honest wags ; The assassination attempt ; A death in the house ; Pointed satyr ; An epidemic's end -- American monsters. Sons of Cato, sons of Calef ; The invention of Silence Dogood ; The arrest of James Franklin ; The printer and his devil ; Three exits
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781476783123
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
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- Specific material designation
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)944243510
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- HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- History
- Medicine -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
- Downloadable e-Books
- Smallpox -- Vaccination | History
- Smallpox -- Vaccination -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Electronic books
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