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From Raising Healthy Children to Defending the Insane: Medical Wisdom from Dr. Fredrick Peterson--Neurologist, Poet, and Humanitarian
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From Raising Healthy Children to Defending the Insane: Medical Wisdom from Dr. Fredrick Peterson--Neurologist, Poet, and Humanitarian
1859-1938
Introduction
Poetry influence
Objectives
Outline
Life sketch
Poetry
Poem
Other Medical Publications
Instruments
Newer Methods of Treatment of Nervous and Mental diseases
Doctors and Gardens
Provisions for Drunkards and Inebriates in NY
Creative Re-Education
The Future of the Physician
Every Child (poem and play)
Mind, Religion, and Medicine
A Visit to the Newest Psychopathic Hospital
Farm
Idiocy, Imbecility, & Feeble-Mindedness
Drawings
Evidenced Based Medicine
Preventative Medicine and the Reconstruction of the Race
Credulity and Cures
Chinese poetry
Medical influence
Mental Disease in Poetry
Deformity/idiocy in poetry
Tremors-poetry
Graphs
Alcohol and Drugs
Supporter of the Arts
Conclusions
Special Thanks and Links
Author: Erin Dunbar, MD / edunbar@ufl.edu
Contact: BJ Strickland / STRICBJ@shands.ufl.edu
Version: Produced by the Office of Medical Informatics
Copyright: 2002 by the University of Florida
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Created: March 14, 2002,
Modified: April 10, 2002