INVENTORY #124221
Truants: The Story of some who deserted Medicine yet triumphed
MOYNIHAN, Lord
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Based on the Linacre Lecture delivered at Cambridge 6 May 1936. Truants (men who trained as doctors but had successful careers outside of medicine) include Clemenceau, Copernicus, George Crabbe, Charles and Erasmus Darwin, Conan Doyle, Gallileo, Goldsmith, Hippocrates, Oliver W. Holmes, Thomas Huxley, Imhotep, Edward Jenner, John Keats, Linnaeus, David Livingstone, John Locke, John McRae, Somerset Maugham, Rabelais, and many more.
Publication Info
- Publisher: University Press
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1936
- Place Published: Cambridge
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
108 p. 19 cm. Brown cloth. Spine a bit faded. Ink signature on front pastedown. Spots on front endpapers. A few small ink and pencil marks. 3 page typewritten index of names mentioned in the book has been pasted to rear endpaper, indicating which ones not listed in Garrison's History of Medicine.