Excerpt from Some Lost Works of Cotton Mather Mather's first move in his campaign for inoculation was to frame an Address to the Physicians of Boston, exhorting them to meet and pass judgment on the novel practice. The Address was dated June 6, It was circulated in manuscript among the doctors, not published, but most Of it soon got into print, as we shall see presently, and the residue (except for a few sentences) is probably still extant in the author's own handwriting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children. From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again. Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.

The most prolific of colonial American writers, Cotton Mather saw almost four hundred of his works published during his lifetime. This edition contains all of Mather's surviving verse written in English, including elegies, epitaphs, simple verse for children, and religious meditations. Introductory discussion of Puritan poetry.