Benjamin Waterhouse - Revision history

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-	'''Benjamin Waterhouse''' (1754-1846) was a physician and scientist. Born in Newport, [[Rhode Island]], he went to the Universities of Edinbugh and Leyden, and walked the wards in London to study medicine during the American Revolution.	+	No article yet exists on this topic. Below are primary source references to and by Benjamin Waterhouse, compiled by Monticello researchers.
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-	Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation\|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].	+
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-	Jefferson would help Waterhouse use the vaccine. Jefferson sent samples and instructions to Dr. Edward Gantt, chaplain of the Congress, and his family physician, Dr. William Wardlaw, in Albemarle County to inoculate people. Jefferson also sent some samples to [[John Vaughan]] to send to Dr. John Coxe in [[Philadelphia]]. In 1807, Jefferson appointed Waterhouse as chief physician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a job he held until 1809.	+
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-	Waterhouse most likely visited Monticello in 1825.	+

	==Primary Source References<ref>Please note that this list should not be considered comprehensive.</ref>==		==Primary Source References<ref>Please note that this list should not be considered comprehensive.</ref>==

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	Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation\|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].		Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation\|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].

-	Jefferson would help Waterhouse use the vaccine. Jefferson sent samples and instructions to Dr. Edward Gantt, chaplain of the Congress, and his family physician, Dr. William Wardlaw, in Albemarle County to inoculate people. Jefferson also sent some samples to [[John Vaughan]] to send to Dr. John Coxe in Philadelphia. In 1807, Jefferson appointed Waterhouse as chief physician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a job he held until 1809.	+	Jefferson would help Waterhouse use the vaccine. Jefferson sent samples and instructions to Dr. Edward Gantt, chaplain of the Congress, and his family physician, Dr. William Wardlaw, in Albemarle County to inoculate people. Jefferson also sent some samples to [[John Vaughan]] to send to Dr. John Coxe in [[Philadelphia]]. In 1807, Jefferson appointed Waterhouse as chief physician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a job he held until 1809.

	Waterhouse most likely visited Monticello in 1825.		Waterhouse most likely visited Monticello in 1825.

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-	'''Benjamin Waterhouse''' (1754-1846) was a physician and scientist. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he went to the Universities of Edinbugh and Leyden, and walked the wards in London to study medicine during the American Revolution.	+	'''Benjamin Waterhouse''' (1754-1846) was a physician and scientist. Born in Newport, [[Rhode Island]], he went to the Universities of Edinbugh and Leyden, and walked the wards in London to study medicine during the American Revolution.

	Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation\|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].		Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation\|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].

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	Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation\|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].		Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation\|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].

-	Jefferson would help Waterhouse use the vaccine. Jefferson sent samples and instructions to Dr. Edward Gantt, chaplain of the Congress, and his family physician, Dr. William Wardlaw, in Albemarle County to inoculate people. Jefferson also sent some samples to [[John Vaughan]] to send to Dr. John Coxe in Philadelphia. In 1807, Jefferson appointed Waterhouse as chief physician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Charlestown, Massachusetts.	+	Jefferson would help Waterhouse use the vaccine. Jefferson sent samples and instructions to Dr. Edward Gantt, chaplain of the Congress, and his family physician, Dr. William Wardlaw, in Albemarle County to inoculate people. Jefferson also sent some samples to [[John Vaughan]] to send to Dr. John Coxe in Philadelphia. In 1807, Jefferson appointed Waterhouse as chief physician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a job he held until 1809.

	Waterhouse most likely visited Monticello in 1825.		Waterhouse most likely visited Monticello in 1825.

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'''Benjamin Waterhouse''' (1754-1846) was a physician and scientist. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he went to the Universities of Edinbugh and Leyden, and walked the wards in London to study medicine during the American Revolution.

Waterhouse returned to America in 1782 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. He made a big impact on vaccination and [[Inoculation|inoculations]]. In 1799, Waterhouse learned of Dr. Edward Jenner's use of the cowpox vaccine on smallpox, and he became one of the country's leading advocates of vaccination. Waterhouse investigated Jenner's techniques and used them on his family. He published his account in a Boston newspaper, wrote to his friend [[John Adams]], but ultimately, wrote to Vice President [[Thomas Jefferson]].

Jefferson would help Waterhouse use the vaccine. Jefferson sent samples and instructions to Dr. Edward Gantt, chaplain of the Congress, and his family physician, Dr. William Wardlaw, in Albemarle County to inoculate people. Jefferson also sent some samples to [[John Vaughan]] to send to Dr. John Coxe in Philadelphia. In 1807, Jefferson appointed Waterhouse as chief physician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Waterhouse most likely visited Monticello in 1825.

==Primary Source References<ref>Please note that this list should not be considered comprehensive.</ref>==

'''1800 December 1.''' (Benjamin Waterhouse to Jefferson). "Having long regarded Mr. Jefferson as one of our most distinguished patriots & philosophers, I conceived that a work which had for it's end the good of the community,, would not be unexceptable to him.- Under that impression I have here sent him 'A prospect of Exterminating the small-pox'..."<ref>[[Short Title List|''PTJ'']], 32:264.</ref>

'''1800 December 25.''' (Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse). "I received last night, and read with great satisfaction your pamphlet on the subject of the kine-pox...I had before attended to your publications on the subject in the newspapers, and too much interest in the result of the experiments you were making..."<ref>Ibid, 32:355.</ref>

'''1801 July 16.''' (Jefferson to [[Martha Jefferson Randolph]]). "I this day inclose to Dr. Wardlaw some publications on the kine pox, with a request to make himself acquainted with them...I am promised by Dr. Waterhouse of Boston successive weekly supplies till it takes."<ref>[[Short Title List|Betts, ''Family Letters'']], 207-208.</ref>

==Footnotes==
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==Further Sources==
*[[Short Title List|''ANB'']].
*[[Short Title List|Bedini, ''Statesman of Science'']], 310-315.
*More Correspondence between Jefferson and Waterhouse can be found at the [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/ Library of Congress].

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