PERCY, FREDERICK BOSWORTH – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     ERCY, FREDERICK BOSWORTH,
Brookline, Massachusetts, professor of materia medica in Boston University School of Medicine, is a native of Bath, Maine, born July 23, 1856, son of
David Thomas Percy and Adrianna Bosworth, his wife. His elementary and secondary education was acquired in the public schools of Bath, and his higher
education in Yale College, where he graduated A. B. 1877. He was professionally educated in the Boston University School of Medicine, graduating thence
in March, 1880. From the time of graduation until September of the same year he practiced in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and then located permanently in
Brookline, where in connection with his professional career he has served as member of the medical staff of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Hospital,
consultant to Westboro Asylum for the Insane, consultant to Emerson Hospital, member of the medical staff of the Boston Homœopathic Dispensary, and
professor of materia medica in his alma mater-Boston University School of Medicine. He likewise has served as member of the Brookline school board and
as trustee of the Massachusetts State Sanatorium, in the latter capacity eight years. This sanatorium is at Rutland, Massachusetts, and was the first
state institution for the care and cure of tuberculosis. Dr. Percy is a member of the Boston Homœopathic Medical Society, the Massachusetts
Homœopathic Medical Society, the Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society, the American Institute of Homœopathy, the Hughes Medical, the
Viginti and the University clubs of Boston. He married, first, June 15, 1881, Ada Lieber Goodsell, by whom he had children : Annie A. Percy, Ada
Lieber Percy, Frederick Bosworth Percy, Jr., and Karlton Goodsell Percy. He married, second, January 30, 1893, Elinor Bellows Wheelock, and had
children : Robert Bosworth Percy and Donald Bellows Percy.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King