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Benjamin Waterhouse

American physician

Died when: 92 years 212 days (1110 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Benjamin Waterhouse

Benjamin Waterhouse (March 4, 1754, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – October 2, 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School.

He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he carried out on his own family.


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