MORRIS FISHBEIN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/24/1976 - HFSID 17902

MORRIS FISHBEIN
Morris Fishbein, editor of JAMA, signed this typed letter on his personalized letterhead in 1975, one year before his death. In it, he thanks the recipient for a Peanuts cartoon, about a doctor from France , from Charles Schultz, "a cartoonist with amazing human insight - actually a genius."
Typed letter signed "Morris Fishbein". 1 page, 8½x11, on Fishbein's personalized letterhead. Dec. 15, 1975. Addressed to Gerald Carson, Millerton, New York. In full: "Dear Gerald: You were most thoughtful to send me the little reprint of the Schultz 'Peanuts' strip about the doctor from France-Amerique, 13-19 Mai 1976. This man is a cartoonist with amazing human insight - actually a genius. I am going to frame this little item to hang on one of my study walls. With my best wishes and my thanks for thinking of me. Sincerely yours, Morris Fishbein, MD MF:bg". Fishbein (1889-1976) was an American medical doctor and editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from 1924 to 1950. On June 21, 1937, Fishbein had been featured on the cover of Time magazine, and he protested in an inside article about FDR's plan to federalize the medical profession. Fishbein, as editor of American Medical Association publications, said that medicine "is practiced as an art and as a science, without any reference to hours of work or any fixed formula for its administration..." In 1970, he endowed the Morris Fishbein Center for the study of history of science and medicine at the University of Chicago. Folds and creases (not near signature). Otherwise in fine condition.