Tag: medicine history
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The Romantic Realist
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in 1859: “No author without a trial can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case…