Victor Robinson (16 August 1886, in

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– 15 January 1947) was a

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and

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Biography

In early childhood, he was brought to

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after being born in

. For two years, he studied at

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before he went into

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and took the Ph.G. at the New York College of Pharmacy in 1910. In the following year, he took Ph.C. at Columbia. In 1917, he took a

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degree at Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, which has since been incorporated into Loyola University. His father,

William J. Robinson William Josephus Robinson (December 8, 1867 – January 6, 1936) was an American physician, sexologist and birth control advocate. He was Chief of the department of Genito-Urinary Diseases at Bronx Hospital Dispensary, and editor of the '' Ame ...

, was also a physician. He is the author of several medical books, including '' An Essay on Hasheesh'' (1910) about

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and also founded the journal ''

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''. In 1924 he helped organize the History of Science Society. A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

Books by Victor Robinson

* ''William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft'' (1907) * ''The State: It's Historic Role'' (1908) * ''Comrade Kropotkin'' (1908) * ''A Symposium on Humanitarians'' (1909) * '' An Essay on Hasheesh'' (1912) () * ''Pathfinders in Medicine'' (1912) * ''Poems'' (1913) * ''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)

References

External links

An Essay on Hasheesh

The Victor Robinson Papers
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Victor Robinson and S. R. Shapiro papers, MSS 6181
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young University {{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Victor 1886 births 1947 deaths 20th-century American physicians Historians of anarchism New York University School of Law alumni Cannabis researchers American people of Ukrainian descent American medical journalists Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States