| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse: A Life in Medicine and Public Service (1754–1846). By Philip Cash. (Canton: Science History Publications, 2006. xii, 516 pp. $56.00, ISBN 0-88135-264-0.)

Benjamin Waterhouse was best known as the "Jenner of America," a critical player in bringing the controversial practice of vaccination for smallpox to the United States. But his interests extended well beyond the dreaded disease. He published major works on botany, temperance, and military medicine; he wrote a captivity narrative of an American surgeon imprisoned by the British during the War of 1812; he made numerous forays into print culture in defense of his character; he engaged in an extensive correspondence with medical luminaries in America and Britain and with major public figures, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; and he completed an autobiography shortly before his death at age ninety-two. While other historians have probed aspects of Waterhouse's career, Philip Cash is the first to canvass the impressive range of those writings. Cash offers a richly drawn portrait of this influential, intriguing, and finally enigmatic figure.

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