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ing inquiry ; had photographs taken of numerous portraits bearing on 

 the (juestion ; carried on a correspondence with experts in Euroi)e ; 

 and linally established beyond doubt tlie fact that the portrait was 

 not of Ambroise Pare, but of another practitioner of a certain reputa- 

 tion, but by no means so great a name as the illustrious surgeon's of 

 whom it had been thought to be a likeness. 



Dr. Bigelow was, unquestionably, a man of true genius. Sagacity 

 in divining the truth ; the power of continuous, patient, and searching 

 investigation ; inexorable determination to have the truth, if nature 

 could be forced to yield it, characterized his powerful intelligence. 

 The record of his printed publications is not a very long one, but it is 

 weighty with original thought and practical discovery. He inherited 

 a distinguished name, and his labors have rendered it memorable «nd 

 illustrious, — one of the brightest in the annals of American surgery, — 

 not to claim for it a still higher place in the history of the healing art. 



Dr. Bigelow was married in 1847 to Susan, daughter of the Hon. 

 William Sturgis. She died on June 9, 1853. One son, William 

 Sturgis Bigelow, survives his parents. 



CHARLES OTIS BOUTELLE. 



Charles Otis Boutelle was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, 

 August 4, 1813. His grandfather was an officer who served hon- 

 orably throughout the Kevolutionary War. His father, a skilful 

 physician and a man of brave and earnest temperament, was a sur- 

 geon in the Navy during the war of 1812. His mother, a daughter 

 of General Nathaniel Goodwin, of Plymouth, who served also dur- 

 ing that war, was a woman loved and revered by all who knew her. 

 She lived to nearly the age of one hundred, and her son never 

 ceased to mourn her loss. 



With such ancestry, many features of Mr. Boutelle's character 

 can be traced to their source. Having while yet at an early age 

 lost his father, he w^as educated by his uncle, the Peverend Ezra 

 Shaw Goodwin, of Sandwich, Massachusetts, and received from 

 him a thorough training in both the classics and mathematics. 

 It soon became necessary for him to earn his own living; so he 

 taught school, studied surveying, and one day, having heard that 

 a friend who owned a Avork on that subject was willing to lend it 

 to him, he walked twenty miles to get it. His skill in practical 

 surveying soon became known, and a place was given to him on the 

 survey of his native State by its director, Simeon Borden. 



