Description |
1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Penn State series in the history of the book |
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Penn State series in the history of the book.
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Contents |
Family matters -- Letters home -- The young physiologist -- War's awful harvest -- Wind and tide -- Pandora's box -- The apple or the rose -- The literary physician -- Combat zones -- Great doctor, poet, and salmon killer -- Winter's sorrow -- The new century |
Summary |
"A biography of Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. Examines his life and his interactions with many prominent nineteenth-century Americans, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jane Addams, Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, William Osler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew Carnegie"--Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
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SUBJECT |
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914
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Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 |
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Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 fast |
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Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography
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Physicians.
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Physicians
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Neurology -- history
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Literature -- history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 19th Century
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physicians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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MEDICAL -- Physicians.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Physicians
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SUBJECT |
Philadelphia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015143 |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780271060040 |
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0271060042 |
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9780271059167 |
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0271059168 |
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9780271058184 |
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0271058188 |
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0271060050 |
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9780271060057 |
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