#  Contagion 

 



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   ![Cover title of A Word to Those That Are Afflicted Very Much](/sites/g/files/omnuum4416/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/emerson7077130cover_0.jpg?itok=spxylm8q) 

 

Cover title of *A Word to Those That Are Afflicted Very Much: A Sermon Preach'd at the Lecture in Malden, October 20th 1738, on Occasion of the Repeated and Multiplied Deaths of Children in Many Families in Said Town by the Throat Distemper* by Joseph Emerson. Boston: Printed by J. Draper for H. Foster, in Cornhill, 1738.[Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=lsr38,contains,Open%20Collections%20Program%20at%20Harvard%20University.%20Contagion,AND&tab=books&search_scope=default_scope&sortby=rank&vid=HVD2&mode=advanced&offset=0) is a digital library collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that contributes to the understanding of the global, social-history, and public-policy implications of diseases and offers important historical perspectives on the science and the public policy of epidemiology today.

Material from the library includes:

- Printed sermons preached on fast days marking the onslaught of epidemics and on thanksgiving days marking their end, including ones by [John Squire](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1148740) (1636), [William Linn](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1152947) (1795), [Paschal N. Strong](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1152950) (1822), [John Gorham Palfrey](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1151761) (1832), and [Edmund Kell](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1151770) (1849);
- Printed sermons preached at the funerals of people who died from infectious diseases, including ones by [Joseph Emerson](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1152946) (1738) and [Isaac W. K. Handy](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1151758) (1855);
- [*The Third Great Plague: A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People*](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1151764) by John H. Stokes (1918) and the pamphlet [*To Girls About the Enemy at Home*](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1151768) published by the Massachusetts State Department of Health (1917?);
- Jeremy Belknap's [list of families in the parish, with information about the inoculation of members, and records of deaths from smallpox in Boston, 1702-1792](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:1144117), from the [Records of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts.](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00004/catalog)

[Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics](https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/search?query=lsr38,contains,Open%20Collections%20Program%20at%20Harvard%20University.%20Contagion,AND&tab=books&search_scope=default_scope&sortby=rank&vid=HVD2&mode=advanced&offset=0) is part of Harvard's Open Collections Program.