{"id":6750,"date":"2017-01-22T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2017-01-22T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T20:02:35","slug":"revolutionizing-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6750","title":{"rendered":"REVOLUTIONIZING MEDICINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fever-1721-Epidemic-Revolutionized-Medicine\/dp\/147678308X\/ref=cm_rdp_product\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fever-1721-Epidemic-Revolutionized-Medicine\/dp\/147678308X\/ref=cm_rdp_product<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coss&#8217;s book is like having three good, small scale biographies surrounded by the drama of a deadly disease. We get to know a doctor, Puritan preacher, and Founding Father.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zabdiel Boylston, Cotton Mather, and Ben Franklin are characters most of us know in the order I listed them: from obscure to well-known. Coss makes it clear and quite compelling why we ought to know Boylston and Mather better. And even though I have read several books about Franklin, there were some fresh insights in this terrific book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One other person who is not part of the aforementioned triumvirate, but looms large is James Franklin, the older brother of Ben. Coss does a terrific job of showcasing how much Ben benefited from the prickly and mercurial James. At times, I felt the author was a bit generous towards James, especially in downplaying how cruel he could be to Ben, but Coss makes his case very well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fever-1721-Epidemic-Revolutionized-Medicine\/dp\/147678308X\/ref=cm_rdp_product Coss&#8217;s book is like having three good, small scale biographies surrounded by the drama of a deadly disease. We get to know a doctor, Puritan preacher, and Founding Father. Zabdiel Boylston, Cotton Mather, and Ben Franklin are characters most of us know in the order I listed them: from obscure to well-known. Coss makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6751,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6750\/revisions\/6751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}