Zabdiel Boylston
AMERICAN PHYSICIAN AND THE FIRST INOCULATOR FOR SMALLPOX IN THE UNITED STATES (1679-1766)
Zabdial Boylston
Zabdiel Boylston, FRS (March 9, 1679 – March 1, 1766) 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, an English-born surgeon named Thomas Boylston, and studied under the Boston physician Dr.