Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Early History of the Medical Profession in the County of Norfolk, Mass: An Address Delivered Before the Norfolk District Medical Society, at Its Annual Meeting, May 10, 1853
Boston, received a good education, but having wealthy relatives was not specially devoted to the interests of his profession. For about two years he had his residence in Dorchester not with a View of engaging in medical pursuits, however although he was sometimes requested to pre scribe for his neighbors Having taken a sudden cold, which produced excitement of the brain, he rose from his bed on the night of July 13, 1817, procured a light, and, placing himself before a looking-glass, deliberately opened the carotid artery; when he threw himself again upon the bed, and soon expired. His death may have been the exciting cause of that of Dr. Clapp, which occurred the following month.
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