| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.
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Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914. |
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Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914. |
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Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
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Physicians. |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
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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Philadelphia. |
| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cervetti, Nancy, 1947- S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1914. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2012 9780271054032 (DLC) 2012007105 (OCoLC)778040101 |
| ISBN |
9780271060040 (electronic book) |
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0271060042 (electronic book) |
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9780271059167 (electronic book) |
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0271059168 (electronic book) |
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9780271058184 |
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0271058188 |
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9780271054032 |
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0271054034 |
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