TY - JOUR T1 - DOctors and medicine AU - Bean WB Y1 - 1963/01/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620250135036 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 131 EP - 132 VL - 111 IS - 1 N2 - Any doctor who labors under the belief that physicians have been respected members of the community for substantial segments of historic time discloses in this belief a conspicuous ignorance of fact. The physician in France has been held up to ridicule routinely. In Voltaire's and Moliere's satirical thrusts, done most extensively and most perceptively, ridicule became a fine art. In this brilliant volume Honoré Daumier satirizes the physician, even as he had chastened the lawyer and politician, in a series of lithographs notable for their technical excellence. Their satirical, indeed their sardonic, view of the physicians of his time fill this beautifully printed edition. They were selected from the vast representation of Daumier lithographs in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In the renowned series of "Robert Macaire" prints, a familiar hero of a current melodrama gave Daumier a suitable model for his great stabs at his neighbors and contemporaries. Using SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620250135036 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1963.03620250135036 ER -