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It is one thing to build an educational tower in the air at your library table, and another to face its actual appearance under the existing circumstances.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Abraham Jacobi

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Born: May 6, 1830
Died: July 10, 1919 (aged 89)
Bio: Abraham Jacobi was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States. To date, he is the only foreign-born president of the American Medical Association. He helped found the American Journal of Obstetrics.
Known for:
  1. Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood (1896)
  2. A Treatise on Diphtheria (1880)

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