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 of various medical societies in England, and receiving the honorary M.D. in 1808. No less an authority than Dr. John Morgan certifies that he served in the Hospital Department “with skill, fidelity, and success.”

The pest-house was placed in the care of Dr. Isaac Rand, Jr., of Charlestown, class of 1761, an interesting character. In college he had shown such proficiency in mathematics that he had been selected in his senior year to accompany Professor Winthrop on the famous expedition to Newfoundland to observe the transit of Venus. Throughout his life he retained his interest in that science, and is said to have striven for years to reduce all medical theory and practice to a mathematical basis. He was a wide general reader and an excellent classicist, author of sundry professional essays, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1780, and president from 1794 to 1804. In 1799 he was given an honorary M.D., and later was elected an Overseer. In private life he was distinguished for benevolence and good breeding. After the departure of the army for New York he remained behind in Boston, continued to specialize in smallpox, and saw twenty-two years of the new century run out before his death. His latter days