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| Born | August 9, 1808 |
| Died | January 14, 1892 (aged 83) |
| Occupation | physician |
| Known for | abolitionism |
| Relatives | Nathaniel Bowditch (father) |
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Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (August 9, 1808 – January 14, 1892) 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.[1] 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).[2]
- ^ Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). . . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
- ^ "Public hygiene in America : being the Centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 / by Henry I. Bowditch ... / together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved February 2, 2024.