Early American Medicine Benjamin Waterhouse Signed Note from the Harvard Physician Who Introduced Smallpox Vaccination to the United States
Waterhouse, Benjamin. Autograph note signed written after 1814 by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Harvard physician who introduced Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination to the United States and helped establish the earliest vaccination campaigns in North America. Waterhouse emerged as a central figure in early American public health after learning of Jenner’s experiments.....
