Typed Letter, Signed, to Dr Hubert James Norman, Camberwell House, London, March 1, 1939, about their book collections. Offered with mailing envelope.

CUSHING, Harvey

Verlag: 1939.

1 page. Vertical and horizontal folds to fit letter into the envelope. Very Good. Cushing gives "G." as the middle initial, but it is "J.": Hubert James Norman, M. B., Ch. B. (Edin.), D. P. H. (Edin. and Glas.), Medical Superintendent, Camberwell House, London, Lecturer on Mental Disorders, Westminster Hospital Medical School. Letterhead: Yale University/ The School of Medicine/ New Haven Connecticut/ Dr. Harvey Cushing. 1 March 1939. Dear Dr. Norman:/ Thanks for your cordial note. The/ chance of my getting over to England this summer is about/ nil. I managed to make the trip last summer owing to my/ interest in Cairns and his work at Oxford. My doctor/ nephew accompanied me, and otherwise I should hardly have/ ventured to take the trip, for my health is nothing/ to brag about./ I would love to see your books, and no less/ would love to have you see Fulton's and my collection as strangely assorted as yours, but nevertheless inter-/esting. / Please make my manners to Bayon and tell him/ that under the circumstances I can hardly plan to take/ part in the discussion on the origin of syphilis./ Even/ could I be present, which I would greatly like to be, I/ would scarcely venture to offer any opinion on this sub-/ ject which is long likely to remain controversial./ Fulton has told me of his delight in seeing/ your books, and I sincerely hope that some day we may/ have a visit from you here./ With regards, I am/ Sincerely yours, / Harvey Cushing [signed]/ Dr. Hubert G. [sic] Norman,/ Camberwell House,/ Peckham Road, S. E. 5. Who was Hubert James Norman (1881-1948)? An obituary states that "he was fond of books and a keen bibliophile." As a student of the history of medicine, he published articles on Cowper, Blake, Swedenborg, Nietzsche, and Bulwer. His Presidential Address, in 1947, to the Section of the History of Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine, was entitled "Progress in the Treatment of Mental Disorders." His medical specialty was mental disorders and in 1928 he published a textbook on the subject entitled "Mental Disorders. A Handbook for Students and Practitioners." Quoting again from his obituary: "Few men had a greater knowledge of the gradual development of the treatment of insanity; researches into demonology up to the present era occupied much of his leisure time." His brother was the Sanskrit scholar Harry Campbell Norman, who was accidentally shot to death in Benares (Varanasi) in India in 1913 at age 35. Their uncle was the linguist and etymologist Charles Duff Campbell. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16880

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Titel: Typed Letter, Signed, to Dr Hubert James ...
Verlag: 1939.
Einband: No Binding
Zustand: Very Good
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)