Characteristics / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Characteristics / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    )HIS book is a broken record of por- tions of the lives of certain friends of mine, and of what I, Owen North, physician, have seen and heard. My people, who were of the Society of Friends, came from Wales, and were with Penn in the Welcome, bnt had lapsed from grace and followed the religious guidance of Hicks. I was further emancipated by the study of medicine, which I took to because it interested me and not of necessity, since at the age of twenty-one I was a man of ample means, free to do as I liked. After a year of hospital work, and three years of added study in Europe, I came home to settle in my native city. Whatever value this irregular account of myself and my friends may have is due to the care with which I have watched the developmental growth of character. I like, therefore, to say at the outset what I appear to myself to have been—leaving the reader who likes to follow me to learn for himself what life did to foster the good or ill that was mine by nature. In early
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