physician
Zabdiel Boylston.
American physician and the first inoculator for smallpox in the United States (1679-1766)
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About Zabdiel Boylston
Zabdiel Boylston, FRS 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, a surgeon named Thomas Boylston, and studied under the Boston physician Dr. Cutler. Boylston is known for holding several "firsts" for an American-born physician: he performed the first surgical operation by an American physician, the first removal of gall bladder stones in 1710, and the first removal of a breast tumor in 1718. He was also the first physician to perform smallpox inoculations in North America.
Everything about Zabdiel Boylston →- Occupation
- physician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 6, 1680, March 9, 1679
- Died
- March 2, 1766, March 1, 1766