Frederick Bosworth Percy (S&B 1877)
Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Kappa Sigma Epsilon. Delta Beta Xi. Phi Beta Kappa.
Had published many articles in homeopathic journals; member American Institute of Homeopathy, Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society, National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookline.[4]
WW1 - Member of Medical Section of Massachusetts State Committee of Council of National Defense.[4]
1907 to 1908, Vice-President, 1912, President of Yale Club of Boston.[4]
29 Mar 1906, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal … “Transition peiords in medicine have always been epochal [momentous]. Great men possessed of great and candid minds have in every age and generation struggled with the problem of drug influence in disease. System has followed system; theory, theory; all alike to disappear and be forgotton. From Hippocrates, the fathers of medicine, who said as the close of his life in speaking of disease, “Such are the causes, such the course, such the termination, alas, of all the disease of my day; but if you ask me how to cure them then I must close my mouth; I did my best best with the rough means at my disposal.”….[5]
Since 1905 - Westboro (Mass.) Insane Hospital, took an active part in the movement for state control of tuberculosis.[4]
1902 to 1928 - Consulting physician to Emerson Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass.[4]
1895 to 1901 - Served as trustee of Massachusetts State Sanatorium at Rutland.[4]
31 Jan 1893 - Married Elinor Bellows, daughter of Henry Gassett and Harriet Stillman Hayward (Dorr) Wheelock. Children: Robert Bosworth and Donald Bellows, ex-‘19.
Since 1893, Visiting and consulting physician to Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and in charge of the medical service there 1913 to 1918.[4]
1892 to 1899 - Member of Brookline School Board.[4]
15 Jun 1881 to Her death 8 Jan 1891 - Married in Syracuse, N. Y., Ada Lieber Livingston, daughter of Thomas and Henrietta (Lieber) Goodsell. Children- Annie (born and died the same day); Ada Lieber (Mrs. Walter White Duffett, Jr ), a non-graduate member of the Smith Class of 1905; Frederick Bosworth, Jr (died in infancy); and Karlton Goodsell (B A. 1907, M D. Harvard 1910).
1886 to 1887, Secretary, 1895, Vice-President, 1896, President of Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society.[4]
1885 to 1886, Secretary, 1886, President of Boston Homeopathic Medical Society.[4]
1883 to 1915, Instructor, 1891 to 1898, Associate Professor, 1889 to 1909, Professor, Boston University Medical School, of materia medica. 1908 to 1915, Professor, Since 1915, Emeritus Professor of clinical medicine.[4]
1880 - M.D. Boston University (member Pi Alpha Gamma), began practice of medicine in Dorchester, Mass., but shortly afterwards moved to Brooklme, where he had since been actively engaged in practice.[4]
1877 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 15 Jun 1928, from Carcinomatosis. Age 71.
[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 66 / On the page 65
[5] - 29 Mar 1906, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
[6] - Find a Grave.com - Frederick Bosworth Percy (S&B 1877)
[7] - Rivalries with the Washington County Council of Defense
[8] - Council of National Defense - WANTED - 25000 Student Nurses
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