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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 9 1 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 1 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Small-pox. (search)
ving read the account, recommended the physicians of Boston to try the operation. None dared attempt it excepting Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, who, to show his confidence of success, began with his own family, and continued the practice against violent oppe would thus be provoked more. Other physicians denounced the practice, and many sober people declared that if any of Dr. Boylston's inoculated patients should die he ought to be tried for murder. An exasperated mob paraded the streets with halters in their hands, threatening to hang the inoculators, and Dr. Boylston's family was hardly safe in his own house. A lighted grenade was thrown into the chamber of an inoculated patient in the house of Dr. Cotton Mather. The selectmen of Boston tookment. When news arrived of the success attending the operation on Lady Mary's daughter (performed the same month that Dr. Boylston introduced it in Boston) opposition was soon silenced, and inoculation was extensively practised in the colonies until
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
roes......1715 Samuel Shute arrives at Boston as governor......Oct. 4, 1716 Great snow-storm; snow from 10 to 20 feet deep......Feb. 20-24, 1717 Potatoes first introduced at Andover......1719 Boston Gazette, the second newspaper started in Boston......Dec. 21, 1719 Small-pox breaks out in Massachusetts......April, 1721 [Out of 5,889 persons who were attacked in Boston, 844 died.] Great opposition to inoculation. Cotton Mather interests himself in urging inoculation. Dr. Boylston consents to the experiment upon his children and servants; 100 inoculated during the year ......1721 New England Courant started in Boston, with James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin, as editor......Aug. 7, 1721 Benjamin Franklin leaves Boston for Philadelphia......October, 1723 William Burnet arrives at Boston as governor......July, 1728 Dispute between Governor Burnet and the House regarding a fixed salary; the House refusing it......1728-29 Governor Burnet dies.