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  • Physician's Anthology: 20 Timeless Storybooks from the Physician's Desk

    The Tragedy of Fotheringay, A Book About Doctors, A Woman's Quest, Dr. Southwood Smith, etc.

    by Bernard Shaw, Arthur Cheney Train, L. T. Meade, Clifford Halifax, R. Austin Freeman, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Dillon Wallace, Eva Shaw McLaren, Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Marie E. Zakrzewska, Gertrude Hill Lewes, Melvin L. Severy, Elizabeth Blackwell, William Macmichael, James Bayard Clark, Harold Barclay, Winston K. Marks, Ellen M. Firebaugh, Amelia Young ...
    In 'Physician's Anthology: 20 Timeless Storybooks from the Physician's Desk,' readers encounter a rich tapestry of narratives that seamlessly weave together elements of medical science, human emotion, and the art of storytelling. This collection brings together an eclectic mix of literary styles, from compelling short stories to poignant autobiographical sketches, and explores themes such as ... Read more

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  • The GoldHeaded Cane

    by William Macmichael ...
    The narrative unfolds through the eyes of a young protagonist who becomes entwined with a group of medical practitioners and their patients. As the cane passes from one individual to another, it reveals the complexities and challenges faced by those in the medical field, including the ethical dilemmas and personal struggles that come with the practice of medicine. Macmichael uses the cane as a ... Read more

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  • The Gold-Headed Cane

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Evolution of Medicine in the 18th Century

    by William Macmichael, Ryan Holloway ...
    William Macmichael's "The Gold-Headed Cane" intricately weaves a narrative that explores the intertwined lives of characters shaped by the medical profession in the early 19th century. Utilizing a unique structure that blends autobiography, fiction, and philosophical musings, Macmichael crafts a tale rich in historical context, examining the evolution of medicine through the lens of personal and ... Read more

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  • The Gold-Headed Cane

    by William Macmichael ...
    William Macmichael, the author of the Gold-Headed Cane, was born at Bridgenorth, in Shropshire, in 1784, and after receiving his education at the grammar school of that town, entered as a student at Christ Church, Oxford, where, after receiving his degree of Master of Arts in 1807, he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1816. In 1811, he was elected to the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship which ... Read more

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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762)

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  • The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (Complete)

    by Horace Walpole ...
    You were both so entertained with the old stories I told you one evening lately, of what I recollected to have seen and heard from my childhood of the courts of King George the First, and of his son the Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Second, and of the latter's princess, since Queen Caroline; and you expressed such wishes that I would commit those passages (for they are scarce worthy of ... Read more

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  • A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

    by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ...
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    In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson's most important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the ... Read more

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