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THACHER, Thomas (1620 – 1678)

THACHER, Thomas (1620 – 1678)

1620 – 1678

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown author Unknown author · The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 47, 1916, page 414 · Public domain

1677 CE

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A brief rule to guide the common-people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks, or measels.

The first medical publication of North America and the only one to appear in the 17th century. Only one copy of the original printing of this broadside survived, written by Thacher, a Boston minister. The sheet was re…