Abstract

RARELY, if ever, has any Boston doctor been farther afield than Samuel Gridley Howe. This is not to speak, of course, in great circle miles, but the mountains of Greece in 1825 were far away in time and circumstance.He was born on Pearl Street, probably, then, just on the outskirts of the best neighborhood in Boston. He went to the Boston Latin School, and since the family could afford to send only one boy to college, Sam was picked. The test was the reading of the Bible. Politics were taken seriously around Boston in those days. Harvard was Federalist, . . .

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