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KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN. American medical biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926
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To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.” Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the general index.
“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place ‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren Thorne