Victor Robinson

Victor Robinson (1886, Ukraine – 1947) was a physician and medical journalist.

Biography

He had studied pharmacy at NYU and the New York College of Pharmacy, law at Columbia University and a doctor of medicine degree at Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, which has since been incorporated into Loyola University. His father was also a physician.

He is the author of several medical books, including An Essay on Hasheesh (1910) about cannabis and also founded the journal Medical Life. In 1924 he helped organize the History of Science Society.

Books by Victor Robinson

• William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (1907)
• Comrade Kropotkin (1908)
• A Symposium on Humanitarians (1909)
• An Essay on Hasheesh (1912) (ISBN 1434808971)
• Pathfinders in Medicine (1912)
• The Don Quixote of Psychiatry: A Biography of Dr. Shobal Vail Clevenger (1919)
• Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America (1919)
• The Life of Jacob Henle (1921)
• The Story of Medicine (1931)
• Syllabus of Medical History (1933)
• Victory Over Pain: A History of Anesthesia (1946)

External links

• An Essay on Hasheesh
• The Victor Robinson Papers