Consumption in New England: Locality One of Its Chief Cause and Is Consumption Contagious or Communicated by One Person to Another in Any Manner

by Henry Ingersoll Bowditch

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14 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892) was an American physician and a prominent Christian abolitionist. Bowditch was born on Aug. 9, 1808, in Salem, Mass to Nathaniel Bowditch, a renowned mathematician. He graduated from Harvard College in 1828, earned his medical degree there in 1832, and afterwards studied medicine in Paris for 2 years with leading physicians of the day. From 1859 to 1867 Bowditch was Jackson professor of clinical medicine at Harvard; he later founded the Massachusetts State Board of Health. Bowditch was a fellow of the American Academy of Public Health and wrote a seminal textbook on the subject entitled Public hygiene in America.