Brett Young was doctor, poet, soldier, writer and musician but seems never to have got the
acclaim he should have had. His name is not much in encyclopedias, but perhaps his death …

" Life comes before literature and the material ahmys comes before the work." And
physicians more than any other men are constantly in touch with life. Humanity at all times …

We deem it appropriate to begin the study of the types of physicians in fiction with an author
who, according to Sir Walter Scott, was" the father of the English novel" and whose" Tom …

The number of medical poets is large, though there are considerable differ¬ ences in their
experience of medical practice and in the standard of their poesy. Keats, for example, only …

last few years have affordedseveral reminders that English literature takes a lively, if not
always a complimentary, interest in the medical profesaion. The medical faddists of Shaw's" …

In i8i i Thackeray was born, but not until x838 had he written anything of merit. His earlier
years were devoted to art, which was ever chief mistress of his affections. Iiqt all his artistic …

THERE is a land that never was but always will be, where are the poets and the writers of
the world in their glorified bodies. Around them purl the waters of Helicon and above them …

The study of literature, as an area worthy of serious intellectual pursuit, faculty appointments
and curricular time, is a newcomer to American medicine. To be sure there have always …

The first is Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), one of the abiding glories of English literature and
the last writer of prose in the grand manner. His Religio Medici, published in 1643, won him …

In the 1920s and 1930s, his novels appeared regularly each year and were frequently best
sellers, with sales averaging 50, OOO copies'. He was acclaimed by the most distinguished …