The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss

The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics

Stephen Coss

368 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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...

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