Waterhouse Family Bible
Dublin Core
Title
Waterhouse Family Bible
Subject
Vaccination
Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846
Bible records
Smallpox
Description
The flyleaves and end papers of Bibles were often used to record the births, deaths, and marriages of family members. But this Bible, belonging to the Waterhouse family, was used to record Benjamin Waterhouse's cowpox inoculations of his children, Daniel, Benjamin, Mary, and Elizabeth, and two servants, Samuel Carter and Kesiah Flag, during the summer of 1800, and their subsequent exposures to smallpox by Dr. William Aspinwall. According to Waterhouse, all were again exposed to smallpox seven years later and suffered no ill effects "which was done to convince the faithless, and silence the mischievous."
Abstract
Family records recorded in the Waterhouse family Bible, recording cowpox inoculations and exposure to smallpox
Creator
Unknown
Publisher
T. Wright and W. Gill
Date Created
1772
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Uncataloged
Format
text
Extent
excerpt (1 page)
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
DigID0002451
Provenance
Gift of Mary Ware Sampson and Margaret Thayer Lancaster to the Harvard Medical Library, 1941
Files
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Waterhouse Family Bible,” OnView, accessed March 28, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6621.