William Douglass
1691-1752
American physician who initially opposed the inoculation against epidemic smallpox as practiced by Cotton Mather (1663-1728) and Zabdiel Boylston (1680-1766) on the grounds ...
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William Douglass was better known as a doctor than as a man of letters; indeed, from 1721--when he rose to prominence as a result of his pamphlets opposing Cotton Mather and others on their plan to in...
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William Douglass
William Douglass