 | 16. Boylston, Some
Account of What Is Said of Inoculating
, 11-14; Cotton Mather, "A Faithful Account of What has occured under the late Experiments of the Small-Pox,"
Boston Gazette
, Oct. 30, 1721.
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| 17. Otho T. Beall, Jr. and Richard H. Shryock,
Cotton Mather: First Significant Figure in American Medicine
(Baltimore, 1954); Cotton Mather, "Sentiments on the Small Pox In-
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| oculated," in Increase Mather,
Several Reasons Proving That Inoculating or Transplanting the Small Pox, is a Lawful Practice
(Boston, 1721); William Douglass,
Inoculation of the Small Pox As Practised in Boston
(Boston, 1722), 9 (for quotation); Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 348.
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| 18. For this paragraph and the quotations see Benjamin Colman,
Some Observations on the New Method of Receiving The Small Pox
(Boston, 1721); Douglass,
Inoculation of the Small Pox
, 18, (on Colman) and
The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets In Favor of Inoculation
(Boston, 1722), for attacks on Cotton but not Increase Mather; Cotton Mather is called "mad" in
A Friendly Debate; or, A Dialogue Between Rusticus and Academicus
(Boston, 1722), 2;
New-England Courant
, Jan. 22, 1722;
Boston Gazette
, Jan. 29, Feb. 5, 1722 for Increase Mather's comments on the
Mercury
and the
Conrant
; Increase Mather,
Some Further Account From London, of the Small Pox Inoculated
(2d. ed., Boston, 1721), 5 (on Douglass). For Cotton Mather's comments on Boston, see
Diary
, II, 631-32.
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| 19.
Diary
, II, 657-58, 659, and
passim
for further feelings of martyrdom.
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| 20. For a sample of anti-ministerial sentiment see
New-England Courant
, Aug. 21, Nov. 6, Dec. 4, 1721; Jan. 22, 1722. Douglass' sneer against the ministers as "Conscience Directors" is in his
Inoculation of the Small Pox
, 9. In the
Courant
of Jan. 22, 1722, the comments about the ministers as "Instruments of Mischief and Trouble, . . ., from the Witchcraft to Inoculation," is made. The same article refers to
Bonifacius
, not exactly fairly or accurately. What Cotton Mather recommended in
Bonifacius
was that the "
Country Minister
(or at least, his wife) should be much of a physician to his flock." In a city, he suggested where there was an "accomplished physician,'' perhaps medical studies would be only a ''diversion" of the minister. See
Bonifacius: An Essay Upon the Good
, David Levin, ed., 82.
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| 21. For Mather's private thoughts on the entire episode, see
Diary
, II, 618-62,
passim
.
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| 22. Franklin B. Dexter,
Documentary History of Yale University . . . 1701-1745
(New Haven, Conn. 1916), 225-33; Mather,
Diary
, II, 695;
New-England Courant
, Sept. 24, Oct. 1, 8, 1722.
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| 23.
Diary
, II, 797, 804, 806n.; Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 475.
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| 24. Carl Bridenbaugh,
Mitre and Sceptre
, 72-73; Miller,
From Colony To Province
, 475-76.
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| 25.
Diary
, II, 723-24.
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