Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.

CAULFIELD, Ernest (1893 – 1972) American Antiquarian Society

New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. available from PubMedCentral at this link.

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Subjects

COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Northeast EPIDEMIOLOGY › History of Epidemiology INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Diphtheria U.S.: CONTENT OF PUBLICATIONS BY STATE & TERRITORY › Massachusetts

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#9189
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/11370
Author Bio Link	American Antiquarian Society ↗
External URL	disease-and-society-in-provincial-massachusetts-collected-accounts-17361939

Geographic Context

Publication place: New York