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He was born on July 22, 1813 in Boston, Massachussets, United States, the son of George Cheyne Shattuck and Eliza Cheever (Davis) Shattuck.
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He was born on July 22, 1813 in Boston, Massachussets, United States, the son of George Cheyne Shattuck and Eliza Cheever (Davis) Shattuck.
He enjoyed exceptional educational opportunities, attending the Boston Latin School, "Round Hill School" in Northampton, Massachussets, under Joseph Green Cogswell, Harvard College, where he received the degree of B. A. in 1831, one year at the Harvard Law School, and four at the Harvard Medical School, receiving the M. D. degree in 1835.
After he was graduated in medicine, he spent nearly three years studying in Europe. In Paris he fell under the spell of P. C. A. Louis, one of the best medical teachers of his day, whose American pupils were to influence the course of medicine in the United States to a marked degree.
P. C. A. Louis entrusted Shattuck with the translation of his Anatomical, Pathological and Therapeutic Researches on the Yellow Fever of Gibraltar of 1828 (1839) and sent him to England to study typhus fever at the London Fever Hospital. Shattuck's report of thirteen cases in which he differentiated typhoid from typhus fever was read before the Medical Society of Observation of Paris in 1838 and published in the Medical Examiner, Philadelphia, February 29 and March 7, 1840.
Shattuck returned to Boston in 1840 to begin to practise with his father. Although at first without hospital or school appointment, he was so imbued with the spirit of Louis that he established a private clinic, or ambulatorium, in his home to train young men in clinical medicine. Eminently practical, like his famous teacher, he would not tolerate medical hypothesis or "system makers. "
Official recognition came at last in 1849 when he succeeded Holmes as visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital. A few years later, in 1855, he succeeded Jacob Bigelow as professor of clinical medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and in 1864 he was made dean of the school. The school at this time was a private undertaking for which the faculty were entirely responsible. Shattuck woke it out of lethargy, kept the best teachers, added new ones, extended the teaching outside of the regular courses to the hospitals and to the physicians' offices, and introduced clinical conferences.
Shattuck founded St. Paul's School in Concord in 1855. The school was built upon the Cogswell formula, so successful at Round Hill: "Physical and moral culture can best be carried on where boys live with, and are constantly under the supervision of the teachers, and in the country". The school and the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he was considered the foremost layman of his time, were Shattuck's greatest interests outside of medicine, throughout the rest of his life. He was a trustee of the General Theological Seminary.
He died on March 22, 1893.
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He was a supporter of the Church of the Advent in Boston.
A simple and sincere man, Shattuck endeared himself to Boston by his sturdy and selfless devotion to the welfare of others.
Quotes from others about the person
A. Stille: "Perhaps no one in Boston had done more good to a greater number of people" than Shattuck, an opinion shared by many of his contemporaries.
He was married on April 9, 1840, to Anne Henrietta Brune, the daughter of F. W. Brune of Baltimore, Maryland. She and their three children survived him. Two sons became Boston physicians, George Brune Shattuck and Frederick Cheever Shattuck.