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American Medical Biographies/Boylston, Zabdiel
Boylston, Zabdiel (1679–1766)
Zabdiel Boylston, the first inoculator for smallpox in America, was the son of Thomas Boylston (sometimes written Boyson), a farmer of Muddy River (Brookline), Massachusetts.
It is probable that Thomas was the son of Thomas who emigrated from London to America in the Defense and settled in Watertown in 1635.
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Zabdiel, the fourth child of Thomas and Mary Gardner, was born in Brookline, March 9, 1679.
He received his medical education from Dr. John Cutter, an eminent practitioner of Boston, and began practice there. Such was his industry and tact that he soon acquired a handsome fortune and a large clientage.
He was especially interested in botany and zoology and made a large collection of American plants and animals.
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He is known chiefly as the first person in America to inoculate for smallpox. According to his own statement ("Account of the Small-pox," 1726, p. 1) he had the diseases himse