Zabdiel Boylston
1680-1766
American physician who performed experimental inoculations for smallpox in 1721, when New England was threatened by a smallpox epidemic. Boylston was the only doctor in the ...
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Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766) was the first American physician to use inoculation against smallpox in 1721 during a Boston epidemic.Zabdiel Boylston was born March 9, 1679, near the present city of Bro...
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