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Victor Robinson
1886–1947
A physician, medical journalist, and lively historian of medicine, he helped bring medical history to English-speaking readers in an accessible way. His books range from broad surveys of medicine to unusual subjects like cannabis, showing a curiosity that reached well beyond the clinic.
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Comrade Kropotkin
by Victor Robinson
An essay on hasheesh : $b Including observations and experiments
by Victor Robinson
About the author
Born in Ukraine on August 16, 1886, Victor Robinson later built his career in the United States. He studied pharmacy at New York University and the New York College of Pharmacy, also studied law at Columbia University, and earned his M.D. from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery in 1917.
Robinson became known as a physician, editor, and writer with a strong interest in the history of medicine. He founded Medical Life, described in archival sources as the first English-language journal devoted to the history of medicine, and he wrote a number of books that helped popularize the subject for general readers as well as professionals.
His work moved easily between scholarship and curiosity-driven storytelling. Alongside historical titles such as The Story of Medicine and Pathfinders in Medicine, he also wrote An Essay on Hasheesh, an early book on cannabis. He died in New York on January 15, 1947, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both medical learning and a wide-ranging literary mind.