A Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New-England How to Order Themselves & Theirs in the Small-pocks, or Measels

Item Information

Title:
A Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New-England How to Order Themselves & Theirs in the Small-pocks, or Measels
Description:
This is the second edition of the first medical document to be published in the American colonies. Only two specimens of the first edition—printed as a broadside in 1677/8—are known. The second edition is also extremely rare. Only three copies are extant, and this is the only one still with its title page.
Creator:
Thacher, Thomas, 1620-1678
Date:
1702
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Harvard Medical Library
A brief rule to guide the common people of New-England how to order themselves & theirs in the small-pocks, or measels
Series:
Harvard Medical Library
Extent:
1 page
Link to Item:
http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6441
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Publisher:
Boston, : Reprinted [by Bartholomew Green and John Allen] for Benjamin Eliot, at his shop under the west-end of the exchange., 1702.
Notes:
Gift of the Harvard College Library to the Harvard Medical Library, 1937
Identifier:
E2003.1.22