Dr. Edward Reynolds

co-Founder of Boston Eye and Ear Infirmary, senior surgeon there unti late in life.

performed Boston's first double cataract operation, on his father.

Met his first wife while studying medicine in England and Paris; some time later (1820) she came to America and they were married in NYC. She died from complication of childbirth of their first child.

His second wife was the daughter of John Phillips, first mayor of Boston, and sister of Wendell Phillips, orator and human rights leader.

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From The Harvard Register, Vol 3, 1881:

"Edward Reynolds was admitted to the college from the Boston Latin School in 1807, and graduated in the class of 1811. After passing a few months in his father's counting-room, he entered apon the study of medicine, pursued it for nearly three years with Dr. John Collins Warren (1797) and then enjoyed for three other years the rare privilege of following in London and Paris the teaching of the great Abernathy, of Sir Astley Cooper, William Lawrence, Dupuytren, and Bichat. While in London he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Returning to Boston in 1818, he engaged in the practice of his profession, and soon began an extended course of lectures in surgery. These lectures, delivered in State Street, and attended by a large number of medical men, were continued for six years, and constitute, it is believed, the earliest formal instruction in surgery in this part of the country, In 1825, Bowdoin College and also Brown University conferred on Dr. Reynolds their degrees of Doctor of Medicine. He originated, in conjunction with Drs. Jacob Bigelow (1806), Davis Storer (m. 1825), and Oliver Wendell Holmes (1829) the Tremont Medical School, and for many years conducted its surgical teaching. The important influence that this School exerted apon the progress of medical education in this community is well known to the profession.

He also early established, with the valuable cooperation of Dr. John Jeffries (1815), the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, now grown to the highest rank as a public charity, and to widely extended usefulness, and remained during a long term of years its leading surgeon.

In the year 1837-1838, during the absence of Dr. Warren in Europe, Dr. Reynolds performed by appointment of the University the duties of Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, delivering the customary lectures at the Medical School, and also the course on Physiology before the Senior in Holden Chapel."