Richard C. Cabot in his lab, 1914. (Wikimedia Commons)

When Medicine and Metaphysics Got Along

The extraordinary career of scientist Richard C. Cabot is a case study in collaboration — and results

Mitch Horowitz
10 min readMay 23, 2023

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Amid a wave of medical licensing laws, the early 20th century was not a promising moment for religiously or psychologically oriented approaches to medicine.

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China