This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Edited by Stanley J. Kahrl.

William B. Bean, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1966;118(6):612-613.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Some time ago, quite unexpectedly at a party with friends, I met Professor Ringler and a wholly unlooked for by-product was that he sent me a copy of a small book. As a member of the Renaissance English Text Society at Northwestern, he had been, in no small part, responsible for having edited and reprinted this charming little book. Any doctor with a trace of feeling for the English language and lore will gobble it up. In ages past for entertainment there were only a few tumblers, clowns, actors, and puppets. The recitation of tales, verse, and lore gave the English language its grand opportunity to fill people's minds with all kinds of things. Certainly they needed filling. Not too long ago I reviewed some of Dr. Boorde's books including the Dyetary of Health. Now comes the enchanting merry tale of The Mad Men of Gotam. The book used for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?