DEATH CLAIMS DR. PEABODY, LONG ILL

Dr. Francis Weld Peabody '03, widely known in the field of medicine, died yesterday morning after an illness of a year and a half at his home at 182 Brattle Street. The funeral will be held on Saturday at noon from King's Chapel in Boston.

Dr. Peabody was born in Cambridge on November 24, 1881, the son of Francis Greenwood Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, and Cora Weld Peabody. He was graduated from the College in 1903, and received his M. D. from the Medical School four years later.

Following his graduation, Dr. Peabody made rapid strides in his chosen profession. He was at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1908 and 1909 in the position of assistant resident physician, and the following year he was made a fellow in pathology at the Johns Hopkins University. During 1911 and 1912 he was assistant resident physician at the Rockefeller Hospital, and from 1912 to 1915 he held the post of resident physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and later that of physician. Subsequently becoming visiting physician and director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, connected with the Boston City Hospital, he next accepted the chair of Professor of Medicine at the Medical School in 1921.

During the World War, Dr. Peabody was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Relief Corps, later being made a major in the medical corps of the United States Army. He was a member of the Red Cross Commission to Rumania in 1917, and one of his more recent honors, bestowed upon him while he was ill, was membership in the board of scientific directors of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Dr. Peabody was a member of the Association of American Physicians, the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Society for Chemical Investigation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission.