400 Years of a Doctor's Life

This book is by doctors about doctors. It is an anthology, but its arrangement is deliberate, shaped to its aim of presenting phases of medical life common to the great majority of doctors, to create at last a portrait of The Doctor. Here you will find entries by familiar individuals such as Benjamin Rush, William Osler, A. Conan Doyle, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Sigmund Freud on various aspects of their lives, such as the practice of medicine, reflections on life, marriage, and even politics.