#histmed In 1721, "Cotton Mather was quick to promote the African practice of inoculation [for smallpox]. This essay returns to the Antinomian Controversy of 1636-38 to resituate Mather’s inoculation advocacy in a longer history of Puritan public health concepts." direct.mit.edu/tneq/article...
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Abstract. When smallpox returned to Boston in 1721, Cotton Mather was quick to promote the African practice of inoculation. This essay returns to the Antinomian Controversy of 1636-38 to resituate Mat...
