Percy Bernard Davidson died April 29, 1932, at Boston, where he was born June 15, 1895, the son of Kallman Mayer and Margaret (Lipshitz) Davidson. He prepared at Boston Public Latin School and at Harvard received an A.B.; [Bachelor of Arts], cum lade, in 1916. From Johns Hopkins University in 1920 he received an M.D.; [Doctor of Medicine]. He served at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, the Mayo Clinic, and at Saranac before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, where he taught in the Pathology Department. Later he taught physiology at the University of Chicago and then returned to Boston to become assistant resident physician at Boston City Hospital on the staff of Dr. Francis W. Peabody.
Assistant in medicine at the Harvard Medical School for a time, he also worked on the research staff of the Thorndike Memorial Hospital. He became head of the gastro-intestinal clinic at the Boston Dispensary, junior visiting physician and chief of the gastro-intestinal clinic at the Boston City Hospital, and was on the staff of the Beth Israel Hospital. He was author of a number of technical papers published in medical journals, and at the time of his death was assistant professor of research medicine at Tufts College. He was survived by his wife, the former Christine Affeld, whom he married in 1927.
~ Harvard College Class of 1916, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1966, Page 101
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