Articles related to "Variolation"

The Age of Enlightenment promoted reason and scientific knowledge, but sometimes new medical treatments were suggested by influential patients and not physicians.

In the spring of 1764, John Adams came to Boston to take advantage of an inoculation program. His writings provide a glimpse of medical treatment in colonial times.

Zabdiel Boylston, the first American surgeon, is remembered for introducing variolation to Colonial America despite strong opposition from the local medical profession.

Science is logical and somewhat serendipitous. Such was the case with Dr. Jenner who noted that milkmaids were immune to smallpox and put that thinking into vaccination.

Though Edward Jenner is credited with developing the first smallpox vaccine, inoculation had long been practiced in other parts of the world.