March 4th
- American physician who pioneered smallpox vaccination and fostered an aggressive campaign to inoculate Americans against smallpox.
- He studied the researches of English physician Edward Jenner and followed with his own experiments.
- On 8 Jul 1800, Waterhouse introduced Edward Jenner’s method of vaccination into America by inoculating his five-year-old son, Daniel Oliver, and a household servant with vaccine obtained from England.
