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Benjamin Waterhouse
Physician Benjamin Waterhouse was the first in the United States to test the new smallpox vaccine, which used cow-pox material, in 1800.
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
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Vaccination
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A prospect of exterminating the small-pox, being the history of the Variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox..., 1800
Benjamin Waterhouse self-published this pamphlet that reports on his inquiry into smallpox beginning with his receipt in 1799 of Edward Jenner's "inquiry into the causes and effects of the Variole Vaccine, or Cow-Pox," through to a summary of Waterhouse's use of the vaccine, using cowpox, a milder form of the disease, on his own children.
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