Will of Ezekiel Hersey

Will of Ezekiel Hersey

Hersey, Ezekiel, 1709-1770

Harvard Medical School

Wills

Anatomy

In his will, Hingham physician Ezekiel Hersey bequeathed £1,000 to the Harvard Corporation to fund a professorship in anatomy and physic [physiology]. Although it took some years for the Corporation to establish a program of medical study, in 1792, the Hersey legacy was used to endow the first two chairs at the Harvard Medical School—the professorship of anatomy and surgery, filled by John Warren, and the professorship of the theory and practice of physic, filled by Benjamin Waterhouse.

Manuscript will of Ezekiel Hersey, bequeathing £1,000 to Harvard to fund the professorship of anatomy and physic

Hersey, Ezekiel, 1709-1770

1770 November 29

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Purchased for the Boston Medical Library, 1970