A friendly debate; or, a dialogue, between Academicus, and Sawny & Mundungus, two eminent physicians, about some of their late performances ... / [Isaac Greenwood].

Boston, in N. E. : [publisher not identified], 1722.

2 unnumbered pages, ii, 24 pages ; (8vo)

Probably printed by Bartholomew Green. Cf. T. J. Holmes, Cotton Mather, a bibliography, Cambridge, 1940, p. 398, 400

Dedication to Zabdiel Boylston signed: Academicus

"By Isaac Greenwood with the collaboration of Cotton Mather" - Holmes, p. 398. J. C. Trumbull suggested Thomas Walter as author (Catalogue of the American library of the late Mr. George Brinley, 1878-1893, no. 1647)

A satire on the opponents of smallpox inoculation at Boston, written in defense of Dr. Boylston and his supporters. "Academicus represents Isaac Greenwood and Cotton Mather jointly ... Sawny represents Dr. William Douglass, the leader of the forces opposed to inoculation ... Mundungus was John Williams, also an opposer" - Holmes, p. 398

A rejoinder by "Rusticus" was published in Boston in the same year under title: A friendly debate, or, A dialogue between Rusticus and Academicus

"Advertisement" (p. [2]) against a book "lately published" by Dr. W. D. (i. e. William Douglass' Inoculation of the smallpox as practised in Boston)

"Appendix [on] the Mundungian language": p. 22-24.

Copy 1 Note: L.1: supplied in photo-copy.

Austin 840

Evans 2339

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 840

ESTC W5512

Evans, 2339

Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, 137