Benjamin Waterhouse
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For the American Samoan judoka, see Benjamin Waterhouse (judoka).
Benjamin Waterhouse (March 4, 1754, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – October 2, 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he carried out on his own family.[1]
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Born | (1754-03-04)March 4, 1754 |
Died | October 2, 1846(1846-10-02) (aged 92) |
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Thesis | Dissertatio medica De sympathia partium corporis humani, ejusque, in explicandis et curandis morbis necessaria consideratione |
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