Dr. John Walton, Yale 1720 *
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Among the rare books in the Sterling Memorial Library is a small volume which has been entirely overlooked by medical historians and yet should be of some interest because it is the first medical publication by a graduate of Yale. Otherwise the book has little to commend it, for it contains no original case descriptions, no startling discoveries, no experimental observations. Indeed, it is merely a scholastic exposition of an old medical theory which had already been discarded long before the book was written. Nor was the author himself of very great importance, and it may be questioned if he ever will be claimed as an illustrious son of Yale. Though equipped with some unusual talents and a good education, he was afflicted with an awkward vanity and an unattractive wilfulness and, as a consequence, his life was a succession of failures in many different professions. Sometimes commendable, more often infamous, never dull, he was an unusually interesting man, possibly because of his failures and his unpredictable reactions to them. But let it be said to his credit that when past middle age he seemed to sense his own weaknesses, was finally able to adapt himself to his social environment, to achieve distinction, and to command the respect of his fellow men. It would be easy to over-emphasize Walton's imperfections and present him in an entirely unfavorable light, but I propose to deal with him as sympathetically as I can, not as a scientific genius nor a paragon of virtue, but simply as an intensely human character who is entitled to a little attention, at least, if only because he was the first of all the Yale men who have written on disease.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1937