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Title: Daydreams of a doctor
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Barlow, Columbus,1847-1907
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, Paul Book Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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his noisy man brought from his cell.He is rather undersized, and has been a man of unusualintelligence. You are informed that he is a physician,and resides in the city. This lunatic at once tells youthat he has the finest musical voice, and invites you tolisten to him sing. He says he can, by a simple opera-tion, so improve the vocal cords that any one can havea similar voice. Then he again raves in the wildest man-ner and at the top of his voice. The doctor undertakesto quiet him, but he seems intractable. He then givesthe man a sharp look, lays his hand upon his shoulder,and he immediately becomes quiet. The doctor thentells you that this man imagines he has had an operationperformed upon him which has given him the intenselymusical voice he believes himself to possess. A few days later you learn that this poor fellow isdead. He was only one of the many victims of over-work which you so often see in the profession of medicine—a man giving his own Hfe in his efforts to save others.
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He gives the man a sharp look. I Insanity and the Alienist 55 You now take leave of the hospital and feel relievedto get away. You also reluctantly take leave of thealienist, only a glimpse of whose work you have seen,but you have seen enough, and you are glad that theseunfortunates have such a man to care for them—to de-vote his life to the alleviation of their dreadful maladies. chapter VI Bacteriology and the Bacteriologist BACTERIOLOGY, says the doctor, is the sci-ence of microorganisms, or the minute forms ofplant life which cannot be seen with the naked eye, andwhich require a high-power microscope to bring theminto view. The world is full of bacteria. They exist inthe atmosphere and in the soil in countless numbers.They are also to be found in great profusion in stagnantwater, and in all forms of decaying vegetable and animalsubstances. They are divided into two classes—patho-genic, or disease-producing, and non-pathogenic, or thosewhich are entirely incapable of causing di

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