A friendly debate; or, A dialogue, between Academicus; and Sawney & Mundungus, two eminent physicians, about some of their late performances. [Five lines of verse from Otway]
dc.contributor | Text Creation Partnership, |
dc.contributor.author | Greenwood, Isaac, 1702-1745. |
dc.contributor.author | Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. |
dc.contributor.author | Walter, Thomas, 1696-1725. |
dc.contributor.author | Boylston, Zabdiel, 1679-1766, dedicatee. |
dc.coverage.placeName | Boston, Massachusetts |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-25 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-07T16:44:04Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-07T16:44:04Z |
dc.date.created | 1722 |
dc.date.issued | 2008-09 |
dc.identifier | ota:N01968 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/N01968 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/N01968 |
dc.description.abstract | Satirical debate directed against Dr. William Douglas (Sawney) and John Williams (Mundungus), opponents of smallpox inoculation at Boston. Cf. Holmes. Attributed to Greenwood, with the collaboration of Cotton Mather, by Holmes. Evans notes that Trumbull considered Mather's nephew Thomas Walter the possible author. Dedicated to Dr. Zabdiel Boylston. Printer's name suggested by Holmes. Appendix, containing a vocabulary of the Mundungian language, p. 22-24. |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.relation.ispartof | Evans-TCP (Phase 1) |
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dc.subject.lcsh | Douglass, William, 1691?-1752. |
dc.subject.lcsh | Williams, John. -- Several arguments, proving, that inoculating the small pox is not contained in the law of physick. |
dc.subject.lcsh | Smallpox -- Vaccination -- Anecdotes |
dc.subject.lcsh | Smallpox -- Vaccination -- Massachusetts -- Boston |
dc.subject.lcsh | Dialogues. |
dc.subject.lcsh | Satires. |
dc.title | A friendly debate; or, A dialogue, between Academicus; and Sawney & Mundungus, two eminent physicians, about some of their late performances. [Five lines of verse from Otway] |
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identifier.stc | Evans 2339 |
otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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