Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, And Miscellaneous

By Jacob Bigelow

Book Overview

Before America had settled its arguments with itself, Jacob Bigelow was already asking better questions. Ideas, sharpened on the page. Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, And Miscellaneous gathers a nineteenth century essay collection that moves with rare ease between literary and scientific essays: from classical studies and literature to practical reflections shaped by the physician's eye. The result is a historical miscellany anthology alive with curiosity, written in the vigorous idiom of antebellum American nonfiction and rooted in New England intellectual history. Across these pages, scholarship meets lived experience, and the tone stays poised: curious, exacting, humane. In its measured prose you can hear a young nation weighing evidence, tradition, and change. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Bigelow's range speaks to the era's science and society debates, and his medical perspective makes the book a rewarding medical history reference book for anyone interested in the history of American medicine and early American scientific writing. Read it as college humanities reading, as a quiet companion to the great essayists, or as a medical humanities classics collection that bridges clinic, classroom, and culture. For casual browsers it offers brisk, self-contained pieces; for classic-literature collectors it stands as a crisp record of how an ambitious mind tried to reconcile antiquity with modern progress. It belongs on the shelf and in the hand, again right now.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 935450468X
• ISBN13: 9789354504686
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"