Silas Weir Mitchell

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Silas Weir Mitchell (January 15, 1829–January 4, 1914) was an American physician and writer.

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• I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.
  • Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337.

• Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
  The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.
  • Dreamland.

• Death ’s but one more to-morrow.
  • Of one who seemed to have failed.

• When youth as lord of my unchallenged fate,
  And time seemed but the vassal of my will,
  I entertained certain guests of state—
  The great of older days.
  • On a Boy’s first Reading of "King Henry V". Compare: "I am the master of my fate", William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875).

[edit] Attributed

• Where did this filthy thing come from?
  • While throwing a book no psychoanalysis into a fire. [1]

[edit] External links

• Silas Weir Mitchell. WhoNamedIt.