From Raising Healthy Children to Defending the Insane: Medical Wisdom from Dr. Fredrick Peterson--Neurologist, Poet, and Humanitarian

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Age 15, Dr. Knott: befriended, mentored, bedside instruction
Age 17, University of Buffalo Medical School in 3 years
Graduated with high honors 1879
Internship at Buffalo General Hospital
Embarked on the beginning of a long career in both medicine and literature
Case reports,Translations, Chapters, Original Works
Interest in medicine is reflected in his early poetic achievements, containing medical terms:
- (death, cremation, alcohol, tremor, neuroses, pathology, anatomy, medicine's side effects)