Neurographs : a series of neurological studies, cases, and notes / Editor William Browning.

Date:
1908
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Credit: Neurographs : a series of neurological studies, cases, and notes / Editor William Browning. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    end of Long Island; settled by New Englanders, it has the attractive characteristics of their villages—the long common green, the beautiful well-kept trees, and th^ comfortable, substantial houses, each with an individual air combined of self-respecting, secluded dignity and kindly hospitality, the latter, however, to be dispensed only to the virtuous and the deserving from a strictly high-bred standpoint; and over all an air of peaceful home life. Ocean and forest were then the teachers and play- ground of Easthampton childhood; a charming, soft, dreamy atmosphere hushed noisy activity and restless ambition, and woke the imagination and the faith in legends and the invisible. Here George Huntington worked and played, dreamed and studied, attending the old Clinton Academy of Easthampton. He obtained his classical education from Mr. John Wallace, a graduate of Edinburgh University, Scotland, and a one time Lord High Sheriff of Edinburgh. Every good man's life owes much to some woman; cherchez la femme is divinely as well as profanely true. Huntington's mother was of a fine old Knickerbocker family, a woman of education and great force of char- acter; and his father's sister, who made a member of the household during his boyhood, was a writer of literary ability, and published several books of poems of merit and charm. He studied preliminary medicine with his father and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Columbia University, N. Y., in the spring of 1871. His graduation thesis was upon Opium. After obtaining his medical degree he returned to Easthampton and assisted his father in practice.