An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays

334 pp. 8vo. A collection of biographical essays by the immensely influential physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins University, taking its title from the life of John Bassett and also discussing the following figures: Thomas Dover; John Keats; Oliver Wendell Holmes; John Locke; Elisha Bartlett; William Beaumont; Louis Laennec; William Pepper; Alfred Stille; Sir Thomas Browne; Girolamo Fracastoro; and William Harvey. Frontispiece of John Bassett.