Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766) was the first American physician to use inoculation against smallpox in 1721 during a Boston epidemic. Zabdiel Boylston was born March 9, 1679, near the present city of Brookline, Mass., and studied medicine with his...

1680-1766 American physician who performed experimental inoculations for smallpox in 1721, when New England was threatened by a smallpox epidemic. Boylston was the only doctor in the Boston area who agreed to work with the Reverend Cotton Mather...

Zabdiel Boylston (born 1676 or 1679 in Brookline, Massachusetts; died 1766) was a medical doctor. He apprenticed with his father, an English surgeon named Thomas Boylston. He also studied under the Boston physician Dr. Cutter, never attending a formal...

More than two decades after the World Health Organization declared the global eradication of smallpox, concern that it could be used as a biological weapon is mounting. After a hiatus of 30 years, the vaccine responsible for that eradication is being drafted into service...

These photographs show how new uses invade old ones in a city. We're looking downtown along Boylston Street from the corner of Ipswich. Even in 1920, the approximate date of the old photo, it's a street where grand ambitions have failed. With the Fenway...