The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
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The "intelligent and sweeping" (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776—and how Boston's smallpox epidemic was at the center of it all.
In The Fever of 1721 Stephen Coss brings to life the amazing cast of characters who changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution: 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 avenues; James Franklin and his younger brother Benjamin; and Elisha Cooke and his protégé Samuel Adams.
Coss describes how, during the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox matter. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding and Mather's house was firebombed.
"In 1721, Boston was a dangerous place...In Coss's telling, the troubles of 1721 represent a shift away from a colony of faith and toward the modern politics of representative government" (The New York Times Book Review). Elisha Cooke and Samuel Adams were beginning to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. Meanwhile, a bold young printer names James Franklin launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenaged 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. "Fascinating, informational, and pleasing to read...Coss's gem of colonial history immerses readers into eighteenth-century Boston and introduces a collection of fascinating people and intriguing circumstances" (Library Journal, starred review).
In The Fever of 1721 Stephen Coss brings to life the amazing cast of characters who changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution: 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 avenues; James Franklin and his younger brother Benjamin; and Elisha Cooke and his protégé Samuel Adams.
Coss describes how, during the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox matter. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding and Mather's house was firebombed.
"In 1721, Boston was a dangerous place...In Coss's telling, the troubles of 1721 represent a shift away from a colony of faith and toward the modern politics of representative government" (The New York Times Book Review). Elisha Cooke and Samuel Adams were beginning to resist the British in the run-up to the American Revolution. Meanwhile, a bold young printer names James Franklin launched America's first independent newspaper and landed in jail. His teenaged 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. "Fascinating, informational, and pleasing to read...Coss's gem of colonial history immerses readers into eighteenth-century Boston and introduces a collection of fascinating people and intriguing circumstances" (Library Journal, starred review).
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Coss describes how, during the worst smallpox epidemic in Boston history Mather convinced Doctor Boylston to try making an incision in the arm of a healthy person and implanting it with smallpox matter. Public outrage forced Boylston into hiding and Mather's house was firebombed.
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Coss's gem of colonial history immerses readers into 18th-century Boston and introduces a collection of fascinating people and intriguing circumstances. The author's masterly work intertwines Boston's smallpox epidemic with the development of New England Courant publisher James Franklin's radical press. The first part of the book focuses on the scourge of smallpox and the heroic efforts of Zabdiel Boylston, the lone physician who dared to save lives through inoculation, a practice denigrated and dismissed by other doctors. The second part turns toward a fever of a political nature, the democratization of Boston's press. These medical and political revolutions occurred simultaneously, with the two major protagonists, Boylston and Franklin, acting in daring and defiant ways. Other important figures from the era are also present, including a complex Cotton Mather and a teenage Benjamin Franklin. This volume provides context for early revolutionary ideas that stirred decades before the United States' break with Britain. VERDICT Unlike many other works on colonial America, including Richard Hofstadter's America at 1750 or James Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten, Coss's focus on a specific location at a specific time fleshes out the complex and exciting scene in sharp detail, creating a historical account that is fascinating, informational, and pleasing to read.--Jeffrey Meyer, Mt. Pleasant P.L., IA
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