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Writer On Medicine: EVIN, gra-vaN', Jacques (1538-1570), French c poet and dramatist, who was also a physi-a and writer on medicine. He was born at rmont-en-Beauvaisis and took his medical de-e at the University of Paris. His sonnets of s (Olimpe, 1560), in the style of his friends I mentors Ronsard and du Bellay, were ad-ssed to Nicole Estienne.Grevin's comedy La Tresoriere (1559) las-ously satirizes women and finance.
By the latter part of the 19th century, the role of science and technology had made so profound an impression on men of European culture that a writer of science fiction could be commercially successful. One such writer was the Frenchman Jules Verne, who can be considered the first professional science fiction writer. An admirer of Poe, Verne published in 1863 his first imaginative piece—a sensational and popular novelette aptly called Five Weeks in a Balloon.
RICHMOND, Grace Louise (nee SMITH), American writer: b. Pawtucket, R. I., 1866; d. .Vov. 28, 1959. She moved to Syracuse, N. Y.; after her marriage in 1887 to Nelson Guernsey Richmond, a physician, she made her home in Fredonia, N. Y. There she wrote much popular fiction, sprightly in manner and wholesome in tone, which was mainly concerned with the beauties of family life and with medicine in its humanitarian and romantic aspects. Numbers of her stones appeared in Youth's Companion and magazines for women.
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