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The Child in Early Paediatrics and Developmental Psychology: Abraham Jacobi and Charles Darwin

Tudorie, George · 2017
PhilArchive · Papers · 2017
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When Abraham Jacobi passed away in the summer of 1919, the medical historian Fielding Hudson Garrison thought it was appropriate to borrow, in his Science eulogy, the words said by Renan, decades earlier, of Turgenev: It fût d’une race par sa manière de sentir et de peindre; il appartenait à l’humanité tout entière par une haute philosophie, envisageant d’un œil ferme les conditions de l’existence humaine et cherchant sans parti pris à savoir la réalité. Cette philosophie aboutissait chez lui à la douceur, à la joie de vivre, à la pitié, chez les créatures, pour les victimes surtout. Cette pauvre humanité, souvent aveugle assurément, mais si souvent aussi trahie par ces chefs, il l’aimait ardemment. Il applaudissait à son effort spontané vers le bien et le vrai. (Renan quoted in Garrison 1919, 104) This was more than a grand final touch to a funeral mask, with its necessary mannerism. Jacobi had been an extraordinary man; the portrait, even reused, did capture character. American paediatrician – perhaps the tutelary figure of the field in the United States, if there ever was one – Jacobi had been many other things: 1848er and political prisoner in Prussia, migrant, social reformer, educator, husband to one of the first women doctors in America.
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