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...with the Médaille Militaire. After a job in French Equatorial Africa as agent for a lumber company he returned to France, got his medical license, satisfied a desire to see the U. S. by working as ship's doctor on a transatlantic liner. A more serious medico than his creature, he wrote a brilliant thesis on a pioneer in obstetrics, was sent to Africa again by the League of Nations to make a study of sleeping sickness. Now a respected 40-year-old, he works in the tuberculosis clinic of a hospital in the Paris slums. Though...
This should indicate that Autobiographer Sutherland is no run-of-the-mill medico and the rest of his reminiscences, though often tantalizingly reticent, fulfill this youthful promise. He tells of so many odd things that have happened to him that an insatiable reader is left with the feeling there must have been many more...
...table, but has all the other qualities of lovableness and generosity attributed to Silver Dick also. For instance, in a St. Joseph, Mo. hospital lay Silver Dick ill with typhoid and considerably nettled thereof when a green young interne attempted to minister to him. For days the young medico tried to please, but as he rushed into the room in answer to yells was immediately retreated by more bellows of rage and helplessness. You can well imagine the feelings of the young man then when he received from his first patient a $20 gold piece as Silver Dick left...
...medico, now a respected man-Dr. A. F. Maisch of this city-still has the gold piece and showed it to me the other day with the above story...
...Author. Literary England is excited about Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin. A Scottish medico of 34, his writing apprenticeship was served in concocting such unlikely sellers as A History of Aneurism, Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines. He took a vacation last summer, wrote Hatter's Castle in some three strenuous months. Gollancz, first English publisher to see the MS, accepted it with cheers. So did the Book Society of London. Though Dr. Cronin served in the surgical corps during the War, has traveled widely, has been down 500 coal mines in the course of research...