She devoted her entire fortune to the collection of art. After her husband died in 1898, Boston gossiped even more about her private life. It was rumored she was starving because she had been so ...

This paper will appear in the Medical and Surgical Reports of the Boston City Hospital for 1898. An abstract of it was read before the Boston Society of Medical Sciences, February 16, 1897.

The term "Boston Brahmins" refers to a class of wealthy, educated, elite members of Boston society in the nineteenth century. Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling ...