BIOGEAPHICAL NOTICES. 



FREDERICK IRVING KNIGHT. 



Dr. Frederick Irving Knight was born in Newburyport, Massa- 

 chusetts, on May 18, 1841, was graduated at Yale College in 1862, 

 from which later he received the degree of A.M., and at the Harvard 

 Medical School in 1866. While studying in Europe he was made 

 Instructor in Percussion, Auscultation, and Laryngology in this school, 

 and in 1886 Clinical Professor of the last subject. He inaugurated a 

 clinic for diseases of the chest and throat at the Massachusetts Gen- 

 eral Hospital, was consulting physician there, as well as at the Free 

 Home for Consumptives, and the Sharon Sanatorium. A pioneer in 

 the movement against tuberculosis, he gave time and thought to its 

 furtherance, and it was largely through the advice given by him to 

 Governor Greenhalge that the Massachusetts Sanatorium at Rutland 

 was established. One of the founders of the Boston Medical Library, 

 he was a student, as well as a practitioner, of medicine, a frequent 

 contributor to the medical press, and a member of well-known medical 

 societies. 



His knowledge of lar3aigology and diseases of the chest, founded 

 upon a broad knowledge of medicine as a whole, made him one of the 

 foremost authorities on these subjects in the country. Possessed of 

 every quality for which we respect the older physician, he was also 

 conspicuously cordial to what was new in medicine, spared no pains to 

 inform himself, and weighed the evidence critically before accepting 

 or rejecting the new remedy or method. No one in the profession 

 reached sounder conclusions or more quietly and courageously held 

 his secure ground. 



In the care of his patients he took exceptional pains to have every- 

 thing done that might contribute to their welfare and recovery. 



He was just, considerate, and generous, to the younger as well as to 



