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Mayday. The saga of the 1971 anti-war demonstrations in Washington. Performed at the Boston Art Group Theater, 367 Boylston St. in Boston. Performances Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., beginning July...
Player Piano. Vonnegut presented at the New Boston Repertory Theatre, One Boylston Place in Boston, through July 18. Performances Wednesday through Sunday at 8:08 p.m. Tickets...
Winner Take All. New musical at the colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St. in Boston., through July 24. Performances Monday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. Tickets...
...local doctors to inoculate as many citizens as possible during the epidemic of 1721. But the city's leading physician called inoculation an "infatuation" and denounced as heathen any treatment adapted from "the Musselmen and faithful people of the prophet Mahomet." Only Mather's friend Dr. Zabdiel Boylston agreed to try the new tactic. Complained Mather: "Not only the physician who began the experiment but I also am the object of the [people's] fury." One opponent of inoculation threw a bomb through Mather's window. Another tried to set Dr. Boylston's house afire...
Even when successful, inoculation can be an extremely unpleasant experience. One of Dr. Boylston's grandnephews, now a member of the Continental Congress, decided to have his wife and four children inoculated. They all confined themselves in a friend's house in Boston, along with a cow to provide milk. Two of the children soon developed eye inflammations, and one of them became covered with what her mother described as "above a thousand pussels as large as a great green pea... She can neither walk, sit, stand or lay with any comfort." The mother also reported that...