Zabdiel Boylston
Physician, Deceased Person
1676 – 1766
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Who was Zabdiel Boylston?
Zabdiel Boylston, FRS was a physician in the Boston area. He apprenticed with his father, an English surgeon named Thomas Boylston. He also studied under the Boston physician Dr. Cutler, never attending a formal medical school.
Boylston is known for holding several "firsts" for an American-born physician: He performed the first surgical operation by an American physician, the first removal of gall bladder stones in 1710, and was the first to remove a breast tumor in 1718.
He was a great uncle of both president John Adams, and philanthropist Ward Nicholas Boylston.
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