ZABDIEL

zăbˈdēĕl, in the Bible. 1 Father of Jashobeam. 2 Official under Nehemiah.

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books on: Zabdiel  - 103 results

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The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams: Being a Narrative of His Acts and Opinions, and of His Agency in Producing and Forwarding the American Revolution, with Extracts from His Correspondence, State Papers, and Political Essays - Vol. 3
Book by William V. Wells; Little, Brown, 1888
Subjects: Adams, Samuel--1722-1803, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, United States--Politics And Government--1775-1783
...Joseph of Newington, was the father of Zabdiel, minister of Lunenburgh, and was born...Brookline. He was the father of the REV. ZABDIEL ADAMS, minister of Lunenburgh, Mass...4. Ebenezer, before mentioned; 5. Zabdiel, minister of Lunenburgh; 6. Micajah...
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Annie Adams Fields: Woman of Letters
Book by Rita K. Gollin; University of Massachusetts Press, 2002
Subjects: Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Boston (Mass.)--Biography, Boston (Mass.)--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Fields, Annie--1834-1915, Women And Literature--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th Century
...book are from her journals. 6 JTF to Zabdiel Boylston Adams, 4 August 1859, MHS...Elizabeth Adams, 19 July 1859, and AF to Zabdiel Boylston Adams, 19 July 1859, MHS...Houghton Mifflin, 1895 , 341 . 11 JTF to Zabdiel Boylston Adams, 4 August 1859, MHS...
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Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742
Book by Carl Bridenbaugh; Alfred A. Knopf, 1955
Subjects: Cities And Towns--United States, United States--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, United States--Social Life And Customs--To 1775
...real skill in their art. 87 The leading Boston surgeon, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, began practicing shortly after 1700. He sprang...almost despairing of any Cure for him: at last hearing of Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of this Town, Chyrurgeon, they made their application...
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Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut: Committee on Historical Publications
Book; Yale University Press, 1934
Subjects: Connecticut--History
...character, which is not to be deplored; and no doubt they gave their sons such Old Testament names as Zabdiel, which is not a handicap, as Dr. Zabdiel Boylston made manifest. But as a matter of dry fact, all the texts, for example, in Hookers...
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Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People
Book by Frederic W. Cook; Houghton Mifflin, 1937
Subjects: Massachusetts, Massachusetts--Guidebooks
...Boylston St. 15. A Tercentenary Marker opposite Reservoir Park indicates the Site of the Zabdiel Boylston House . Here, in 1736, lived Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, the first American physician to inoculate for smallpox. In 1721, despite popular...
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journal articles on: Zabdiel  - 8 results

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Changing Patterns of Obligation and the Emergence of Individualism in American Political Thought
Journal article by Jordon B. Barkalow; Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Political behavior, Political science, Political theory, United States
...industry amongst the people resides with colonial governments.16 Zabdiel Adams calls governments attention to industry as the "support...to fruition in the divorce of industry from frugality.17 Zabdiel Adams, writing in 1782, speaks of industry as "the life...
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The Temporality of Allegory: Melville's "the Lightning-rod Man"
Journal article by Sean R. Silver; The Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 62, 2006
Subjects: Christianity, Ethics, History, Literary criticism, Melville, Herman (1819-91), Metaphor, Short stories, Writers
...use in Europe-he met nearly general resistance from the medical community; only forward-thinking surgeon and apothecary Zabdiel Boylston and a handful of Mathers followers among the clergy could be convinced to join his project. And because, as well...
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The "angelical Conjunction" Revisited: Another Look at the Preacher-physician in Colonial America and the Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735-1740
Journal article by Bryan F. Le Beau; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 18, 1995
Subjects: Clergy, Culture, Epidemics, History, Physicians, Smallpox
...to limit the ravages of the epidemic, but nearly all of the citys lay physicians rejected the idea out-of-hand. When Zabdiel Boylston, the notable exception, consented and invited his colleagues to observe the process and its results, they refused...
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Nathaniel Gardner and the New-England Courant
Journal article by Joseph Fireoved; Early American Literature, Vol. 20, 1985
Subjects: American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783
...came to New England (Blake 54). Nonetheless, Mather had no academic medical training, and though he enlisted the aid of Zabdiel Boylston, one must conclude that Boston citizens were justly terrified of the practice. Indeed, Dr. William Douglass...
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John Denison Hartshorn: a Colonial Apprentice in "physick" and Surgery (Boston)
Journal article by Catherine L. Thompson; Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 38, 2010
...1755 when "D.G. paid John Frizell a fellow apprentice his Wages in full." On the other hand, in 1736, Boston physician Zabdiel Boylson entered into an agreement with Joseph Lemmon to teach and instruct his son in "physick" and surgery, providing food...
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magazine articles on: Zabdiel  - 1 result

 
 
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Doctoring History
Magazine article by Charles Barber; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 34, Summer 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Throughout his remarkably entertaining account, Rutkow selects telling medical episodes--the tormenting of colonial surgeon Zabdiel Boylston by a violent mob, who believed that his smallpox inoculations spread disease; President James Garfields death in...


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newspaper articles on: Zabdiel  - 1 result

 
 
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Springfield High School
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 30, 2009
Subjects: University of Oregon
...Miller, William Montalvo, Jessica Montes, Christopher Moore, Joshua Morton, Jarod Mowrer Cherise Naranjo, Earvin Narvasa, Zabdiel Navarro, Cassandra Neitzel, Chris Nelson, Cody Nichols, Peter Nichols, Thania Nunez-Hernandez, Siria Ochoa, Sherri...


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encyclopedia articles on: Zabdiel  - 3 results

 
 
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Zabdiel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZABDIEL zab deel, in the Bible. 1 Father of Jashobeam. 2 Official under Nehemiah. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Boylston, Zabdiel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BOYLSTON, ZABDIEL 1679 1766, American physician, b. Brookline, Mass. He was privately educated in medicine and settled in Boston. In an epidemic...
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Mather, Cotton
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was deeply interested in science and was the first native-born American to be a fellow of the Royal Society. He persuaded Zabdiel Boylston to inoculate against smallpox and supported the unpopular inoculation even when his life was threatened. See biographies...


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