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"If We Can Make a Cure of Him": Lyrical Grenfell in the St. Anthony Casebooks, 1906.
Narrative-based physician records contain much more than observerless data and diagnoses. Indeed, a "case," the basic currency of medical communication, can be seen as a literary genre, much like a novel or a poem, and given close readings for author voice, tradition, and influences. In this article, I describe my initial encounter with Dr. Wilfred Grenfell's casebooks in a hospital basement in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, and my subsequent engagement with them as both a physician and a poet. Adopting Bleakley and Marshall's definition of medical lyricism as the impulse that "draws our attention to delicacy, tenderness and the joyous, and to verve, desire, eroticism, the fecund, abundance and generation," I argue that Grenfell's approach to medicine in early 20th -century Newfoundland and Labrador was both a product of his scientific training and his enculturation at the end of the Victorian period.
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