Author: MONRO, Thomas Kirkpatrick
Title: The Physician As Man of Letters Science and Action
Description: Edinburgh, E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. (4pp), 259pp. Near fine. Tiny ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight and handsome second edition, revised and enlarged, of this 1933 study, with thumbnail biographies of hundreds of medical figures who made names for themselves in fields outside medicine -- grouped by those fields: Poetry; Drama; The Stage; Fictional and General Literature; Scholarship, Bibliography and Scientific Collecting; Philosophy; The Church; Saints; Rosicrucianism; Philanthropy; Law and Politics; Ambassadors; and dozen or so other fields of endeavor. .

Keywords: Medical


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