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Zabdiel Boylston, FRS (March 9, 1679 – March 1, 1766) was a physician in the Boston area. As the first medical school in North America was not founded until 1765, Boylston apprenticed with his father, an English-born surgeon named Thomas Boylston, and studied under the Boston physician Dr. Cutler.
Zabdiel Boylston (born March 9, 1676, Muddy River Hamlet [now Brookline], Massachusetts [U.S.]—died March 1, 1766, Brookline) was a physician who introduced smallpox inoculation into the American colonies.
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Médico prático americano nascido em Muddy River Hamlet, hoje Brookline, Massachusetts, o pioneiro da aplicação de vacina antivariólica na América ao inocular cerca de 200 pessoas em Boston ...
31 de dez. de 2014 · One physician, Zabdiel Boylston, heeded his call, but most other doctors were hostile to the idea. At the forefront of the anti-inoculation contingency was one of Boston’s only physicians who actually held a medical degree, Dr. William Douglass.
6 de set. de 2022 · Learn about the life and career of Zabdiel Boylston Adams, a Union surgeon and a descendant of the famous Boston physician who pioneered smallpox inoculation. Discover his role in the Civil War, his actions at Gettysburg, and his contributions to medical society.
Among the issues were the religious implications of interfering with divine providence, and the legality of spreading a potentially fatal infection; and whether the disease induced really was smallpox, and whether it was safer than natural smallpox, and induced immunity.
Zabdiel Boylston was born in the village of Muddy River, Massachusetts, now part of the Boston suburb of Brookline. He is remembered for his role as the first variolator in North America and one of a handful of men who introduced the practice into the Western world.
