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BOLLES medica at the Harvard Medical School from 1880 to 1884.

Very early in his youth he was attracted by his natural taste to the study of flowers and he always spent much time in his garden, maintaining a keen rivalry with some of his fellow enthusiasts on the perfection of his blooms. He was an admirable cabinet-maker and wrought some beautiful specimens of furniture, such as the mahogany frame of an eight-day clock. In his later life he acquired some fine lenses, microscopic and telescopic, and plunged with great eagerness into the wonders both of the small and the great. He invented instruments and published accounts of them in the City Hospital Reports.

He settled to practice in a pleasant and then semi-rural part of Roxbury, and before long his professional intelligence and skill brought to him, still young, the appointment on the active surgical staff of the City Hospital. This position he held for twenty-five years; he retired at the age-limit, but continued a consultant. He remained an admirable general practitioner until within a few years of his death and was an important man in his community.

Dr. Bolles early made a home for his widowed mother and younger brother. After the death of their son, an only child, was a grievous blow to them. Although he never spoke of this affliction, yet its chastening effect upon his spirit was ever afterward evident to his friends.

Hospitality was a deeply seated instinct with him; he enjoyed the spirit of good fellowship in the medical clubs to which he belonged; he contributed generously, not only to scientific communications, but to the flow of humor and conversation about the board.

Bolles was a natural craftsman, and long before breakfast he was happily at work in his well-equipped work-shop. He carved splints of many kinds, of original and excellent device, such as could not be bought; finger and thumb-splints, too, of brass. He melted silver and fashioned it into artistic shapes. He was a master in photography and his photographs of flowers could hardly be surpassed.

At different times he spent three summer vacations in Europe, surely finding more than mere medical interest in art, but he was not of a romantic temperament, and his microscopic eyes wanted more than color-generalizations. Similarly, in his eagerness for nature and science, he found no time for poetry or novels. He was of short stature and in later years had a bushy head of gray hair. In operating he gave a great deal of attention to minute details and kept a roomful of assistants occupied.

The busy years of faithful and successful practice sped by leaving him "even younger in his later days." His kindness was overflowing and "he believed the best of everybody."

He spent the last winter of his life in California, with his wife, under the mountains of Santa Barbara. The place was a revelation to them of beauty and comfort. They found old friends there and made new. On the 18th of March, 1916, at the end of a happy day out of doors, Dr. Bolles had a sudden heart-attack, and in a few minutes received his release.



Bond, Henry (1790–1859)

Henry Bond of Philadelphia, physician and genealogist, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, March 21, 1790, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1813, being a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and from Dartmouth Medical School in 1817. His ancestors came from Bury St. Edmunds, England, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1650, where they lived for several generations. His father was Henry Manuel Bond, farmer, and his mother the eldest daughter of Captain Phineas Stearns, both of Watertown; the grandfather was Colonel William Bond of the Revolutionary Army.

After practising two years in Concord, New Hampshire, he went to Philadelphia in 1819, where he practised medicine for over forty years. He was a fellow of the College of Physicians and was its secretary for eleven years and he was president of the Philadelphia board of health for several years.

Dr. Bond was the author of a work called "Watertown Family Memorials," two large volumes, giving the personal history of New England families, published in Boston, 1856; he published in the Transactions of the College of Physicians in 1828 a monograph on foreign bodies in the esophagus and how to remove them, with a description of his esophagus forceps.

He died from heart disease in Philadelphia, May 4, 1859.