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The Medical Muse: Or, What To Do Until The Patient Comes
The Medical Muse ... from 1965
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1963
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Richard Armour
151 books38 followersRichard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.
Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.
Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.
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August 20, 2015
This book is (was) I am sure aimed at doctors (male), it is pretty funny, if you are not bothered by the sexist slant. But, it is a pretty good indicator of how things were in society about 50 years ago. Also I have an original hardback from 1963, not paperback, but this was the only listing.
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