Cotton Mather and American Science and Medicine
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Total Pages | : 328 |
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Author | : I. Bernard Cohen |
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Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1980 |
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Mather, Cotton.
Author | : Rick Kennedy |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802872115 |
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was the very first American evangelical. A fresh retelling of Cotton Mather's life, this biography corrects misconceptions and focuses on how he sought to promote, socially and intellectually, a biblical lifestyle. As older Puritan hopes in New England were giving way to a broader and shallower Protestantism, Mather led a populist, Bible-oriented movement that embraced the new century -- the beginning of a dynamic evangelical tradition that eventually became a major force in American culture. Incorporating the latest scholarly research but written for a popular audience, The First American Evangelical brings Cotton Mather and his world to life in a way that helps readers understand both the Puritanism in which he grew up and the evangelicalism he pioneered.
Author | : Stephen Coss |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476783128 |
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).
Author | : Cotton Mather |
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Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1862 |
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Author | : Cotton Mather |
Publisher | : American Antiquarian Society |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Medicine |
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This book contains Cotton Mather's writings on medicine, who saw illness in a spiritual context and provided a combination of scientific and spiritual treatments for diseases.
Author | : I. Bernard Cohen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674066595 |
Examines the scientific work of Benjamin Franklin in fields ranging from heat to astronomy ; provides accounts of the theoretical backgroung of his science, the experiments he performed, and their influence throughout Europe and the U.S.
Author | : Richard Harrison Shryock |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780801490934 |
First published in 1960, Richard Harrison Shryock's Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860 remains a sweeping and informative introduction to the practice of medicine, the education of physicians, the understanding of health and disease, and the professionalization of medicine in the Colonial Era and the period of the Early Republic. Shryock details such developments as the founding of the first medical school in America (at the College of Philadelphia in 1765); the introduction of inoculation against smallpox in Boston in 1721; the creation of the Marine Hospital Service in 1799, under which all merchant marines were required to take out health insurance; and the state of medical knowledge on the eve of the Civil War.