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About Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
Henry Ingersoll Bowditch was an American physician and a prominent Christian abolitionist. Bowditch was born on August 9, 1808, in Salem, Massachusetts 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, Public Hygiene in America (1876).
Everything about Henry Ingersoll Bowditch →- Occupation
- physician, environmental health officer, abolitionist
- Position held
- President of the American Medical Association
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 9, 1808
- Died
- January 14, 1892