Arrowsmith (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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Winnemac. Imaginary midwestern state—bordered by Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana—in which many of Lewis’s novels are set. Martin spends his boyhood in the small Winnemac town of Elk Mills, where he is introduced to medical science and treatment by Doc Vickerson, whose practice is above his father’s New York Clothing Bazaar. He attends the University of Winnemac at Mohalia on the Chaloosa River, fifteen miles from the state capital Zenith; it is a progressive institution, the first in America to offer extension courses via radio, which Lewis likens...

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