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By Oglesby Paul. 220 pp., illustrated. Boston, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1991. $24.95. (Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.) ISBN 0-674-09738-6.

". . . For the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient."

These words, burned indelibly into the minds of generations of medical students, closed a lecture given by Francis W. Peabody to Harvard students on October 21, 1925, and the words have lasted well. The lecture, entitled "The Care of the Patient," is reprinted in this book and deserves reading, particularly today, when medical technology focuses more on the disease than on the patient.

Who was Francis Peabody? Fortunately, Harvard Medical School professor Oglesby Paul has delved deeply and put together a scholarly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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