Walsh, James Joseph. [Makers of modern medicine.] *$2. Fordham university press.
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The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that religion.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously (certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of ‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w. |
“The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three doctors there will be two atheists.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w. |
“For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.” W. G. MacCallum.
| + | Science, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w. |