Papers, 1816-1899.

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Papers, 1816-1899.

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The collection details the career of an eminent Boston physician of the mid-19th century; Clark served as surgeon at Mass. General Hospital for many years and helped to contain the cholera epidemic of 1848-9. He was largely responsible for defining the difference between typhus and typhoid fever. Clark was active, too, in the political and cultural affairs of the city as shown in correspondence from distinguished fellow-citizens. Printed matter includes tickets to medical school lectures, diplomas, documents issued as City Physician, letters to newspapers, and occasional verse written for St. Andrew's Lodge and other fraternal organizations. Earlier and later papers in the collection relate to his father, Henry Clark (1780-1873) and son, the architect Henry Paston Clark who published, in 1893, a memorial tribute to his father.

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Boston Athenaeum

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