Word: bowditch
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Legless women excited Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (1805-61) to pity. In 1860 he gave $5,000 to the Massachusetts General Hospital for the purchase of wooden legs. Meticulous, he specified: "I should desire that female patients should be preferred to males." For 69 years the hospital has been obeying his instructions, but the need has been dwindling. Rare is it now that amputations must be made. Hence the hospital recently asked a Massachusetts probate court, and last week was granted, permission to merge the Bowditch leg fund with its general fund...
Rich was Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, eldest of the great Nathaniel Bowditch's (1773-1838) eight children. The Bowditches are among the oldest of U. S. families, descended as they are from one William Bowditch who lived at Salem, Mass., from...
Nathaniel Bowditch made his fortune as actuary of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Co.; his fame, as translator-commentator of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch increased his patrimony by practicing law in Boston. He wrote his father's biography. His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy. The only Bowditch now living sufficiently famed for Who's Who recognition...
Ineligibles--Stroke, N. C. Faxon '30; 7, J. W. Dunlop '29; 6, J. G. Lewis '30; 5, W. H. Boldt '30; 4, James Roosevelt '30; 3, Daniel Codman '30; 2, S. I. Bowditch '28; bow, M. A. Lomasney '30; cox., J. H. MacCollom...
Both races were rowed upstream due to the rough water in the Basin. The Ineligible Combination and University 150-pound crews both started the class race, but the light weight combination dropped out at the Henley distance and the Ineligibles, after starting well, were serious handicapped when S. I. Bowditch '28, rowing No. 2, broke his oarlock, which resulted in disabling him and splitting the oar of W. H. Boldt...