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Charles Loomis Dana
(25 Mar 1852 - 12 Dec 1935)
American neurologist who was a a prominent New York physician. He contributed much to medical literature in his field, including Text-book of Nervous Diseases (1892) which by 1925 was in its tenth edition. He applied exceptional forensic ability in the trial of Charles J. Guiteau, about which he wrote in the Medical Record (5 Jul 1882).
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Science Quotes by Charles Loomis Dana (2)
Perhaps today there is agreater kindness of tome, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact that all the real, solid, elemental jests against doctors were uttered some one or two thousand years ago.
— Charles Loomis Dana
In 'Current Medical Caricature in the United States', Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago (1911), 18.
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The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.
— Charles Loomis Dana
New York Medical Journal (1913), 97, 1.
