Zabdiel Boylston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American physician and the first inoculator for smallpox in the United States
Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1680
Place of Birth: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 02-Mar-1766
Profession: physician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Zabdiel 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 surgeon named Thomas Boylston, and studied under the Boston physician Dr.
- Cutler.
- Boylston is known for holding several "firsts" for an American-born physician: he performed the first surgical operation by an American physician, the first removal of gall bladder stones in 1710, and the first removal of a breast tumor in 1718.
- He was also the first physician to perform smallpox inoculations in North America. He was a great uncle of President John Adams, as well as philanthropist Ward Nicholas Boylston.
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