Dr. Frederick Wallace Abbott died at his home in Taunton on June 19, in his fifty-ninth year. Dr. Abbott was born at Dover, New Hampshire; he was educated in the public schools of Dover, Berwick, and South Berwick, Maine, and after teaching for four years, entered Dartmouth College. He received the degree of A. B. from the University of America in 1883, attended the medical department of Bowdoin College for two years, and was graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Maine in 1886. In the same year Dr. Abbott married Sylvina Apphia Emery, of Kennebunk.

Dr. Abbott practised in Taunton until the latter part of his life, when he devoted considerable time to consulting and medico-legal work and diseases of the nervous system. He was honored by two professorships: the Professorship of Eugenics at the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City, Missouri, and a Professorship in Middlesex College. Dr. Abbott had been elected head of the Eclectic Association, and had received among may honorary degrees, an A. M. from Taylor University; a Ph. D. degree from the National Normal University (Lebanon University since 1908); he was an LL. D. of Potomac University in 1905, at which institution he was also one of the guiding officers; he was F. S. Sc. (1901) of London in 1908. Dr. Abbott was licensed to practise in Michigan in 1890, and in Vermont in 1897, and was also lecturer on physiology and Hygiene at Merrimac County Academy, Concord, N. H. He also was an honorary life member of the Société Internationale de Philologie, Sciences et Beaux Arts, England, with the title of F. S. P., and an active member of the American Association of Orificial Surgeons.

Dr. Abbott contributed many articles on medical and surgical subjects.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 181, p.76