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(HOPEDALE). FISH, WM. A. A Memoir of Butler Wilmarth, M.D.; One of the Victims of the late terrible Railroad Catastrophe at Norwalk Bridge, Ct.: with Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company; New York: Fowlers and Wells , 1854. 1st ed. 12mo. 256 pp. Frontis. port. Orig. cloth. Slight wear to spine ext., a nice copy. $275.00

 

Wilmarth was for a time physician at Hopedale, eventually converting from allopathy to the practice of hydropathy, which was in favor with the residents there.