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 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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The patient reader who savors a richly detailed, slow-burn narrative that braids medical breakthroughs, political upheaval, and the birth of American journalism into one transformative colonial moment will find this book irresistible.

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More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776.In The Fever of 1721, Stephe...

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