Boylston, Zabdiel
Born: Mar 01, 1676 AD
Died: 1766 AD, at 90 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Physicians
Died: 1766 AD, at 90 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Physicians
1676 - Born on March 9th in Brookline, Massachusetts. American physician who introduced smallpox inoculation into the American colonies.
- He received medical instruction from his father, but never obtained a medical degree.
1705 - He married Jerusha Minot in January and they had eight children.
1710 - He was the first American physician to remove gall bladder stones.
1718 - He performed the first surgical removal of breast tumor.
1721 - In an epidemic of smallpox, he was persuaded by Cotton Mather to inoculate, thus introducing the practice to the United States.
- He used inoculation against smallpox during a Boston epidemic.
1724 - He published his 'Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England' and traveled to London.
- Sloan invited Boylston to London and lectured in the Royal College of physicians.
1726 - He became a fellow of the Royal Society.
1766 - He died of pulmonary illness on March 1st.
- He received medical instruction from his father, but never obtained a medical degree.
1705 - He married Jerusha Minot in January and they had eight children.
1710 - He was the first American physician to remove gall bladder stones.
1718 - He performed the first surgical removal of breast tumor.
1721 - In an epidemic of smallpox, he was persuaded by Cotton Mather to inoculate, thus introducing the practice to the United States.
- He used inoculation against smallpox during a Boston epidemic.
1724 - He published his 'Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England' and traveled to London.
- Sloan invited Boylston to London and lectured in the Royal College of physicians.
1726 - He became a fellow of the Royal Society.
1766 - He died of pulmonary illness on March 1st.
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