biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1679–1766)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He received medical instruction from his father, but never obtained a medical degree. He was the first colonial doctor to inoculate people against smallpox (1721). He inoculated over 200 people in Boston, and only six of those persons died. He and Cotton Mather (who had encouraged the use of inoculation) were both persecuted by angry crowds for their actions. Boylston published his results in London (1726) and then returned to Boston. |
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