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Edward Augustus Holyoke

Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1728, Edward Augustus Holyoke was the son of the Reverend Edward Holyoke, who served as President of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769. The younger Edward entered the college at the age of 14 and graduated in the class of 1746.

After a short period teaching in Lexington and Roxbury, Holyoke moved to Ipswich to study medicine under a physician, Colonel Thomas Perry. After a two-year apprenticeship, Holyoke opened his own medical practice in Salem in 1749. He retired in 1821, 73 years later.

Holyoke was a pioneer in the treatment and prevention of smallpox. During an epidemic in Salem in 1777, Holyoke allowed himself to be innoculated by Dr. Nathaniel Perkins of Boston. Surviving the controversial treatment, he convinced more than 600 of his patients to be innoculated.

Harvard awarded Edward August Holyoke an honorary M.D. degree in 1783, this being the first award of an MD at the university. In the late 1780s, Holyoke was a founder of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he served as its president from 1814 to 1820. He was also a founder of the Massachusetts Medical Society and served as its president from 1782 to 1784 and 1786 to 1788.

Holyoke died in 1829 at age 100. He is commonly referred to as Dr. Holyoke in order to distinguish him from his father, President Holyoke.

1.25-inch pocket refracting telescope

1.25-inch pocket refracting telescope

John Gilbert (II)
1760-1780
Culpeper-type compound microscope

Culpeper-type compound microscope

English
circa 1750
graphometer

graphometer

Nicolas Bion
1710-1715
Gregorian reflecting telescope

Gregorian reflecting telescope

English
1715-1720
ivory hydrometer

ivory hydrometer

English
circa 1725
screw-barrel and compass-type simple microscopes

screw-barrel and compass-type simple microscopes

English
circa 1720
sector

sector

Michel Cadot
1733
sector with A-level

sector with A-level

Pierre Sautout-Choizy
circa 1740
sector with Gunter's scale

sector with Gunter's scale

English
circa 1712
single barrel air pump

single barrel air pump

English
1750-1790
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