Joseph Collins (1866–1950) was an American

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, born in Brookfield, Conn. He received the degree of

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from

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in 1888, and after some years of private practice took up the specialty of neurology; in 1907, he was made a

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of that subject in the

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. He was later a co-founder and visiting physician to the

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Bibliography

In addition to his attainment as a practitioner of medicine, Dr. Collins wrote books and other literature. He is notable as the man who first reviewed

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's novel

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for the

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. His major writings, medical and secular, are: * ''Letters to a Neurologist'' (1908; second series, 1910) * ''The Way with the Nerves'' (1911) * ''Sleep and the Sleepless'' (1912) * ''Neurological Clinics'' (1918) * ''My Italian Year'' (1919)
''The Doctor Looks at Literature''
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923.
''Taking the Literary Pulse''
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924.
''The Doctor Looks at Biography''
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925.
''The Doctor Looks at Love and Life''
Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. * ''The Doctor Looks at Marriage and Medicine''. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. * ''The Doctor Looks at Life and Death''. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Company, 1931.

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* ttps://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce-ulysses.html Joseph Collins' review of Ulysses for the New York Times on May 28, 1922* American science writers Physicians from New York City People from Brookfield, Connecticut 1866 births 1950 deaths American neurologists New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni Scientists from New York (state) {{US-physician-stub