> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 96](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066436) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11429-1) LSID 11429-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2896275) QID Q2896275 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Waterhouse, Benjamin (1754-1846), American physician and naturalist; M.D. Univ. Leiden 1780; practicing physician at Newport 1782; professor of theory and practice of physic Harvard 1783-1812; lecturer in natural history 1788-1809; physician to U.S. Marine Hospital, Charlestown, Mass. 1807-1809; practicing physician again in Cambridge from 1812; introduced vaccine for small pox in U.S. **Abbreviated name**: *Waterhouse* \[standard form in IPNI: *Waterh.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 463 (b. 4 Mar 1754, d. 2 Oct 1846); BB p. 117; BM 5: 2270; DAB 19: 529-532; Dawson 855-856; Desmond p. 642; Lenley p. 472; ME 1: 238, 3: 673; PR 10002, d. 1: 10986; Rehder 1: 85; Tucker 1: 733. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 253: 613-614. 1965; Natl. Cycl. Amer. biogr. 9: 254. 1899; Who was who Amer., Hist. vol. 565. 1963. - Blake, J.B., Benjamin Waterhouse and the introduction of vaccination, Philadelphia 1957, 95 p. - Burrage, W.L., *in* H.A. Kelly, Cycl. Amer. med. biogr. 481-485. 1912. - Elliot, C.A., Biogr. dict. Amer. sci. 267. 1979. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 4, 6, 37. 1969. - Graustein, J.E., Thomas Nuttall 173, 188, 279. 1967. - Hirsch, A. et al., eds., Biogr. Lex. hervorr. Ärzte ed. 3. 5: 855. 1962. - Kelly, H.A. & W.L. Burrage, Amer. med. biogr. 1200-1203. 1920. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Hort. Berg. 3(2): 181. 1903. ### Publications ##### n.16.798. The botanist **Title** *The botanist*. Being the botanical part of a course of lectures on natural history, delivered in the University at Cambridge together with a discourse on the principle of vitality... Boston (Published by Joseph T. Buckingham,....) 1811. Oct. (in 4-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Botanist*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 4-24 Jul 1811 (p. viii: 4 Jul 1811; 24 Jul 1811 copy sent by W. to J.E. Smith, letter at LINN), p. \[i\]-xiv, \[15\]-263. *Copies*: HH, MICH, NY, PH.