A necrology of the physicians of Lowell and vicinity, 1826-1898 : prepared for the Massachusetts North District Medical Society / By David N. Patterson.

  • Patterson, D. N. (David Nelson), 1854-1908.
Date:
1899
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Credit: A necrology of the physicians of Lowell and vicinity, 1826-1898 : prepared for the Massachusetts North District Medical Society / By David N. Patterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    was the daiigliter of Dr. Elislia Lord, a distinguished physician of Pomfret, Connecticut, and was a woman of superior intellect, high culture and great moral worth. Under their instruction and influence he was trained in correct habits, and imbibed those sterling principles by which his future life was controlled. He was fitted for college under the direction of his father, who made it a part of his occupation to fit young men for college, and his adaptedness for that work was shown by the scholarship and number of students who were instructed by him, many of whom afterwards occupied important places of trust and responsibility. Mr. B. A. Gould, for many years master of the Boston Latin School, Avas among the number. He entered Dartmouth College at the age of 15, and graduated in the class of 1815. He studied medicine with Dr. Bradstreet of Newburyi^ort, and attended medi- cal lectures at Yale College, taking his degree in 1823. In 1821 he came to Lowell and entered at once upon a career of professional and official duties such as it is rarely the fortune of one man to experience. As in other j)ursuits, so in the practice of medicine, time, circumstances and surroundings liaA^e much to do in directing the course and shaping the destinies of men. It was fortunate that Dr. Huntington did not choose one of the specialties in medi- cine or surgery to which to devote his thoughts and his hours of study, for subsequent events, in Avliich he was so activeh^ engaged, and the duties of which he was so emi- nently fitted to discharge, would have made it necessary for him to sacrifice the studies of the one or the obliga- tions of the other. But as a general physician he was eminently suc- cessful, and Avhen not interrupted by the duties of his official position, he enjoyed a large practice. If we may presume to speak of his professional Avortli in a more sacred relation, it may be stated that as a family pliyst- cian he enjoyed the confidence and high regard of a large number of families in this community, avIio retained his services as long as he lived. During the earh^ years of his practice, LoAvell Avas being ra])idly populated by indi- viduals and by large and enter])rising families. The excellent ()i)])ortnnities and inducements ottered by this