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Panama and the Sierras: A Doctor's Wander Days.

Panama and the Sierras: A Doctor's Wander Days. If there is anything in a name, the title of this book ought to insure it a successful "run." This does not mean that all there is to it is the poetical title. Far from it. There is not a page but is interesting and some of the descriptions are beautiful word pictures, showing that the author, besides his other gifts, has that faculty which few writers possess—the ability to describe a scene or an occurrence so that the reader can see it as the observer saw it. Lydston takes a trip to his birthplace in California by way of New York, and is snowbound on the way; to Cuba; across the Isthmus of Panama; up the Pacific coast to San Francisco; and, after a ramble through California, home. He takes the reader with him and shows him what he saw—by photographs "taken on the spot," and by his happy http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

Panama and the Sierras: A Doctor's Wander Days.

JAMA , Volume XXXV (25) – Dec 22, 1900

Panama and the Sierras: A Doctor's Wander Days.

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If there is anything in a name, the title of this book ought to insure it a successful "run." This does not mean that all there is to it is the poetical title. Far from it. There is not a page but is interesting and some of the descriptions are beautiful word pictures, showing that the author, besides his other gifts, has that faculty which few writers possess—the ability to describe a scene or an occurrence so that the reader can see it as the observer saw it....
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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1900 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1900.02460510053018
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Abstract

If there is anything in a name, the title of this book ought to insure it a successful "run." This does not mean that all there is to it is the poetical title. Far from it. There is not a page but is interesting and some of the descriptions are beautiful word pictures, showing that the author, besides his other gifts, has that faculty which few writers possess—the ability to describe a scene or an occurrence so that the reader can see it as the observer saw it. Lydston takes a trip to his birthplace in California by way of New York, and is snowbound on the way; to Cuba; across the Isthmus of Panama; up the Pacific coast to San Francisco; and, after a ramble through California, home. He takes the reader with him and shows him what he saw—by photographs "taken on the spot," and by his happy

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JAMAAmerican Medical Association

Published: Dec 22, 1900

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