page_title: Benjamin Waterhouse
hierarchical_section_title: Benjamin Waterhouse
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Benjamin Waterhouse at the age of 79,
context_page_description: Benjamin Waterhouse was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he carried out on his own family.
context_section_description: Benjamin Waterhouse (March 4, 1754, Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – October 2, 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he carried out on his own family.
caption: Waterhouse portrait by Rembrandt Peale from 1833
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