Arrowsmith.

Abstract

To the distinguished line of novels of medical interest that have been commented on from time to time in this department we may now add the latest work to come from the pen of Sinclair Lewis, known to medical readers particularly for the character of Dr. Will Kennicott in "Main Street." The son and the brother of physicians, reared in a medical atmosphere, Sinclair Lewis approached the writing of Martin Arrowsmith with unusual capabilities. He realized, however, the limitations under which any lay writer must labor in approaching a medical subject, and he took with him, as assistant and counselor, Paul De Kruif, Ph.D., formerly assistant in the department of bacteriology in the University of Michigan, and later member of the staff at the Rockefeller Institute. It is not surprising, therefore, to find in the novel much of the atmosphere of the life of De Kruif. The first physician to