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five letters, 18 pages, in very good, clean, legible condition. Group of letters pertaining to Edward Wigglesworth (1840-1896), a dermatologist who founded the Boston Dispensary for Skin Diseases, headed the Department of Diseases of the Skin at Boston City Hospital, and taught at Harvard Medical School. He was the son of Edward Wigglesworth (1804-1876) who graduated from Harvard in 1822 and studied law at Judge Prescott's office. He helped Dr. Lieber in the publication of the Encyclopaedia Americana, 1829, and served as trustee and president of Massachusetts General Hospital, among other organizations. In 1835, he married Henrietta May Goddard, daughter of Nathaniel Goddard. Dr. Wigglesworth was a direct descendant of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705), Puritan Divine and the author of A Day of Doom and Meat Out of the Earth. Dr. Wigglesworth graduated Harvard 1861, M.D., 1865, studied dermatology in Europe, 1865-1870, m. Sarah (Willard) Frothingham, Apr. 4, 1882, the couple had three children. He served with the Union Army during the Civil War; founded and maintained Boston Dispensary for Skin Diseases, 1872-1877; head Dept. of Skin Diseases Boston City Hospital; instructor dermatology Harvard Medical School; president American Dermatology Association, 1885; active in introducing law to require registration of physicians in Massachusetts, founded Boston Medical Register. Died Boston, January 23, 1896. Harvard Medical School has an endowed Edward Wigglesworth professorship of Dermatology. Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, p. 579 Boston, May 16th 1871, E. Wigglesworth, Jr. M.D. 24 Charles St. ?My dear Bungay, I believe you have my romantic life and thrilling adventures down to where I left my country for my country?s good. I staid 5 years in Europe studying skin diseases, came home Sept. 1870, settled as above, am practicing Dermatology as my Specialty, was appointed a few days since lecturer on Syphilis at the Hav. Med. School, am one of the orators for this year before the annual meeting of the Man. Med. Soc. And am delighted to know that you are enjoying the same blessing ? Otherwise I?ve done, been & suffered nothing. Decidedly concur in the idea of a demi-decennial report. ?The class? don?t ?seem to take no interest?. I?m for the dinner for I should like to see just once the ?old familiar faces? tho? I suppose that?s past hoping for now. As to the Class Fund, I as ?the most popular man in the class? shd. Want to do at least as much as any man, but seeing that only 13 men of wh. Unlucky number I was one, have subscribed and that deducting my subscrip. [wh. Was scrip for $ 50. If I remember rightly] there remains for the other 12 an average of less than $ 15.00 it hardly seems worth while to try to fight it out on that line. If the ?jolly class of ?61? should change its mind, regalvanize its effete affections and do the handsome thing, ? your friend Ned W.? 108 Boylston St. Boston, July 3/77 ?Dear Wright, Thanks for news of chart! Yours just rec?d Since 1871 I have pottered along doing my little multa rather than multum. I have however founded and presented to the Harvard Medical School the finest museum in America of Specimens of skin diseases. I am Instructor in Syphilis at the School; one of the collaborators of the Amer. Archives of Dermatology; corresponding Member of the New York Dermatological Society; and one of the Translators of Ziemssen?s Cyclopedia of Universal Medicine. I founded and ran for five years the Boston Dispensary for Skin Diseases and the raison d?etre of such an institution being proved the city has now inaugurated that department in its general Dispensary. I gave the initial impetus to the Boston Med. Register and to the Boston Med. Library Association and was chairman of the meeting at Philadelphia Sept. 6th 1876 to organize the Amer. Dermatological Association. I am a member of the Amer. Med. Assoc. (on Special Committee); Amer. Publ. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 030730
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