Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846), US physician. Waterhouse studied medicine in Europe in London, Edinburgh and Leiden, graduating in 1780. He returned
Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846), US physician. Waterhouse studied medicine in Europe in London, Edinburgh and Leiden, graduating in 1780. He returned to the USA and became a professor at the medical school at Harvard, a Fellow of Rhode Island College, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1795). His key work was introducing in the USA from 1801 the use of Edward Jenner's method of cowpox vaccination against smallpox. He published 'Information Respecting the Origin, Progress, and Efficacy of the Kine Pock Inoculation' (1810). Engraving after a 1775 portrait by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828).
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