THE DOCTOR IN LITERATURE
Lecturing before the Royal Society of Literature on "The Doctor in Literature," Mr. Francis Brett Young sajd that there was a remarkable list of medical men who had turned author —Sir Thomas Browne, the poets Lodge/ Campion, and Vaughan;, Locke, the philosopher; Crabbe, the great humanist; Keats and Shelley, Francis Thompson, Robert Bridges, Anton Chekhov. The habit of • minute observation was the basis of the doctor's occupation, as it was that of the novelist. Moreover^ the young man in a hospital saw things and particularly people, as they were—fortitude, generosity, patience, self-sacrifice, and courage—declaring themselves so splendidly that human nature was revealed as the lovely thing it was. In the eyes of the surgeon all men were equal. No matter how exalted the soul or commanding the ability, it was the material body with which they were concerned. And yet the fact remained that the best doctors were the least callous, and the least materialistic of men.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 21
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