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

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Instituted Music in Epilepsy Colonies, Community Centers, Schools
Charaka Club
Committee of Religion and Medicine
Russian Dance Troop and School of Acting
At Parting, The Sweetest Flower that Blows
More than 30 musical settings, including James H Rodgers, Charles E Ives, and Charles B Hawley
Sung by prima donnas around the world
Mrs Peterson recalls:
- Kirsten Flagstad, giving a Wagnerian concert sang the song for Peterson. He had the intense pleasure of hearing it performed in presence of immense audience, by one of best singers in world. He leaned to her and said: "Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace"
Soon died of throat cancer secondary to lifelong tobacco use (irony)