Day: June 4, 2020

Front facade of Houghton Library

Three Bostonians and the Smallpox Epidemic of 1721

By Peter X. Accardo, Scholarly and Public Programs Librarian Among the texts available through Harvard Library’s online collection Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is Some Account of What is said of Inoculating or Transplanting the Small Pox (*AC7.M4208.721s), anonymously printed in 1721 and long thought to be written by Puritan minister Cotton Mather…