Sir Kenelm Digby, Writer, Bibliophile, and Protagonist of William Harvey

Behavior, and the Anthropometric Examination. The second part, dealing with the Norms of Infant Growth, describes behavior norms, gives a summary of maturity levels, a functional syllabus, and also anthropometric norms. The third part is devoted to an Analytic Appraisal of Growth Status and includes the principles of genetic analysis, the analytic developmental schedule, and the clinical appraisal of behavior status. There are six appendices, some of which deal with the routine schedule for clinical examination, clinical and research record forms, and normative summaries of preschool development. The development of behavior patterns has for far too long a time been described in vague and rather subjective terms and with relatively little scientific measurement of what actually takes place. Any further studies in this field which fail to utilize the scientific studies from the Yale Clinic of Child Development will be in danger of falling into scientific inaccuracies which might have been avoided by a thorough understanding of the methodology and results of the studies by Doctor Gesell and his associates. Obviously, for the pediatrician and psychiatrist much valuable material has been recorded which will in the future give a far better understanding of some of the childhood deviations from normal physical growth and from normal behavior patterns. This whole work should tend to bring closer together the pediatrician and the child psychiatrist and enable them both to proceed in their clinical investigations with far more scientific accuracy than heretofore. The author in search of a hero (or a villain,-it hardly matters) where-with to point a tale may well give thought to Sir Kenelm Digby. Recipient of unbounded praise, some at least meriting qualification, and of an abundance of vilification, of which some, certainly, cannot be gainsaid, Sir Kenelm was a man of parts. Theologian of no sure and steady belief, philosopher of a school as yet undefined, landlubber turned Admiral by way of becoming a pirate, politician with daring sufficient to face Buckingham, diplomat with grace to win himself knighthood but hardly enough to save his kinsman Bristol, astrologer, physician-of-sorts, and withal, an author and collector of books. Each aspect of this versatile genius offers fascinating problems for study; the last-mentioned-and perhaps the most meritorious-being given consideration in this essay. For surely, as author and bibliophile, we recognize his greatest legacy. Within these few pages, presented against a background of court and corsair, is told the story of his capacity-possibly …