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Cotton Mather

SOURCE: Washington Post
3/8/2020

A Puritan Minister Incited Fury by Pushing Inoculation Against a Smallpox Epidemic

In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal with a terror that bordered on hysteria.

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Cotton Mather

A Puritan Minister Incited Fury by Pushing Inoculation Against a Smallpox Epidemic