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These primitive practices were introduced to England and the American colonies. In 1721 and 1722, during a smallpox epidemic, a Boston doctor named Zabdiel Boylston scratched the skin of his six-year-old son and 285 other people and rubbed pus from smallpox scabs into the wounds. All but six of his patients survived...
...best surgeons were the ones who could cut, hack and saw most rapidly, aided by the strongest assistants to hold the patient down. Herbs and plants were extensively used in treatment. Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay prescribed a paste of wood lice, while Cotton Mather-who together with Zabdiel Boylston brought inoculation to the colonies in 1721 to prevent serious cases of smallpox-condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century, there were only two drugs known...
...persuade local doctors to inoculate as many citizens as possible during the epidemic of 1721. But the city's leading physician called inoculation an "infatuation" and denounced as heathen any treatment adapted from "the Musselmen and faithful people of the prophet Mahomet." Only Mather's friend Dr. Zabdiel Boylston agreed to try the new tactic. Complained Mather: "Not only the physician who began the experiment but I also am the object of the [people's] fury." One opponent of inoculation threw a bomb through Mather's window. Another tried to set Dr. Boylston's house...
...Harvard Medical School Department of Legal Medicine has confirmed the death of Zabdiel Boylston Adams '65, who parachuted into the sea off East-ham by accident last summer...
...hold a tea dance for Freshmen and their guests in the Union on Saturday afternoon after the Army game. Mrs. Delmar Leighton heads a list of twelve patronesses which includes Mrs. James B. Conant and Mrs. Gaspar G. Bacon. The other patronesses who have consented to attend are Mrs. Zabdiel Adams, Mrs. Trowbridge Calloway, Mrs. Leslie Cutler, Mrs. Leslie Friedman, Mrs. Herbert Jacques, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. Max L. Talbet, Mrs. Henry B. Prout, and Mrs. Edward L. Young...