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Suggest a Profile! Whether personthat who respected has stood up the for an important cause, faced incredible odds orinisBoston just all-around interesting, we want your opinion on whose personal/professional story errors and cursed clamors that you fill know the a special society voluntary One person had had enough is worth sharing with our readers. Nominees don’t have to work in the health care industry, but the story must have a health-related angle. Send your recommendations to page@thehealthjournals.com. town and country, raging against the submission to law and authority. They of the high and mighty Cotton Mather. He astonishing success of the smallpox were breaking the law in tandem: lorded his position over everyone, thinkinoculated,” he wrote, “makes it seasonBoylston performing inoculations in ing he was better than everyone else. He able for me to state the case and exhibit Mather’s home and certainly with his was filled with rage that the fool minister that which may silence the unreasonsupport elsewhere. Others were similarly was in league with the quack Boylston able people….”434 preparing to violate the civil law as well giving people smallpox. What they were The Selectmen knew that there as God’s commandment against murder. doing just did not make sense. The resentwere people from Roxbury in Cotton There was a complete breakdown of law ment boiled for weeks, if not months, and Mather’s home to receive inoculations. and order in Boston. was now about to explode.... The officials had had enough of Zabdiel Boylston’s risky procedure and Mather’s collaboration in it. They certainly did not want to encourage people to come from all over the countryside as if under Military • Firefighters & Indian attack, rushing to Boston to reEmbraces Medicine’s New Frontiers ceive inoculations and possibly rekindle Rescue Personnel • Police a diminishing epidemic. The Selectmen stated that they were Officers • Teachers and “credibly informed that many persons belonging to other towns are already School Employees • Doccome into this town, and have taken the tors, Nurses & Medical infection of the smallpox, in the way of inoculation, but that as yet the infection Personnel • Local, State has not operated upon them yet expect that in a few days it will.” Moreover, the & Federal Government If you are one of our Great American Heroes we want to thank you! officials were concerned that “many Employees • Retired Stop by today and see the wonderful apartment homes that await you. others belonging to other towns intend to come to this town for the purpose Heroes Welcome aforesaid, and that they know how to come in and where, and what houses to W W W. A R T C R A F T C O S . C O M use in spite of the town.” The Selectmen empowered the justices of the peace and TIVOLI APARTMENTS LEXINGTON COMMONS PARKWOOD MANOR constables with warrants to search the town diligently, apprehend the outsiders, Age and “carry them to the respective towns 55+ to which they belong or to the province hospital” at Spectacle Island. The measures were an attempt to “keep them from infecting others.”437 Boylston apparently did not heed the word of the Selectmen. He performed 1027 Tivoli Crescent 14534 Old Courthouse Way 7703 Major Avenue more than a hundred inoculations during the month, including several promiVirginia Beach, VA 23453 Newport News, VA 23608 Norfolk, VA 23505 nent individuals, including ministers, a 866.483.1415 866.463.2620 877.987.3229 Harvard professor, and Samuel Sewall’s parkwood@artcraftcos.com tivoli@artcraftcos.com lexington@artcraftcos.com grandson, Samuel Hirst.438 Even on November 29 Mather related to his diary that “several persons at this time under the smallpox inoculated. I must look on CEDARFIELD AT CHURCHLAND STRATFORD AT WILLIAMSBURG PINEDALE MANOR as my patients, and so, my relatives.”439 A PA R T M E N T S & T O W N H O M E S The Selectmen called several ministers to appear at a meeting and answer accusations that they were encouraging country people to come to Boston to be inoculated in violation of the law. “After some hot discourse on both sides,” the ministers denied it with barefaced lies, knowing full well that they were continu100-A Stratford Road 761-1A Adams Drive 4201-3 Cedar Lane ing.440 One thing the public authorities Williamsburg, VA 23185 Newport News, VA 23601 Portsmouth, VA 23703 failed to do was to arrest the inoculator who continually defied the law. 888.525.0189 888.869.6016 888.781.1090 Boylston and Mather broke the law, cedarfield@artcraftcos.com stratford@artcraftcos.com pinedale@artcraftcos.com perhaps believing they had a higher law to obey. If they did, they helped underDiscount applies to base rent only. Applications must meet all standard rental requirements. mine the covenantal basis of Puritan Responsibly Managed by Artcraft Management Inc.
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