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Francis Peleg Sprague (February 17, 1834 – October 6, 1921) was an American ophthalmologist and surgeon.

Sprague was born February 17, 1834, in Washington, D.C. while his father, Peleg Sprague, was a U.S. Senator from Maine.

Sprague attended the Boston Latin School, graduating in 1845. He later entered the Harvard Medical School and graduated with a Doctor of Medicine in 1857. He served as an intern in Boston before studying ophthalmology in Vienna. He returned during the Civil War and was appointed Acting U.S. Assistant Surgeon serving from February 1862 to February 1864 in the Judiciary Square Hospital and Desmarres Eye and Ear Hospital.

In 1864, Sprague was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he served until 1890. He was an infirmary surgeon along with Robert W. Hooper. Prior to working at the infirmary, Sprague and Benjamin Joy Jeffries opened a free dispensary on Eliot Street in Boston for the treatment of eye and skin diseases. Sprague worked at the infirmary serving the public for 25 years and never entered a private practice.

Sprague married Elizabeth Rebecca Lowell, daughter of John Amory Lowell, on October 5, 1868. They had no children.

Sprague lived in Boston's Back Bay at 229 Commonwealth Avenue in a house designed by Peabody & Stearns. He also owned a summer cottage on Swallow Cave Road in Nahant, previously owned by the son of Robert Grant, also designed by Peabody & Stearns.

Sprague died October 6, 1921, at the Somerset Club in Boston.

Sprague joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1860. He was also member of the Boston Medical Library, Boston Society of Natural History, Somerset Club, St. Botolph Club, The Country Club, The Bostonian Society, and Algonquin Club. Sprague was also an original member of the American Ophthalmological Society.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1318306/pdf/taos00079-0013.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1318306/

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