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NOVELISTS > novelist, journalist, river pilot > Mark Twain
Surgeons and anatomists...
Vendor: NOVELISTS
Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.
Source: Letter to the Alta Californian, San Francisco, 28 May 1867.
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US novelist, journalist, river pilot; The Great American humorist was also known as The People's Author and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.