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...Burma Surgeon," Gordon Stifler Seagrave, who is just short of 64 years old, and looks older. Through four decades and many tropical illnesses he has labored at Namkham in northeastern Burma, within sight of the China border, 130 miles by the rugged Burma Road from an airport. Dr. Seagrave has made Namkham a legend of effective American aid to an underdeveloped area...
...Rangoon, the government announced that Dr. Gordon (Burma Surgeon) Seagrave will be allowed to practice medicine again at the Namkham mission hospital which he founded. Said the doctor: "I am grateful to the government and people of Burma for their trust. Every life I save will be dedicated to U Kyaw Myint, the Burmese lawyer who defended me against treason charges...
...Japanese war, he organized a front-line medical service for U.S., British and Chinese troops, trekked out of Burma with U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, marched back again when the Japanese were driven out. During the country's fierce postwar civil strife, he continued to operate his hospital at Namkham. Last September rebel forces took Namkham. Government troops eventually drove them out. Thakin Nu's government said it suspected that the American doctor had helped some of the rebels to escape...
Burma was not new to the doctor - his grandfather had been a Baptist missionary there, his father was still a missionary in Rangoon, he himself had been born in Burma. But Namkham, its people and dialects were new. And the hospital was filthy. "The floor was stained with blood and pus and medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully...
...slit trenches. The weather got hot. Food ran short and was often so poor that Grindlay could not digest it. It began to be time to abandon Burma altogether. Dr. Seagrave began to try to gather up all his people from the outpost hospitals and his old home at Namkham. He corralled nearly all of them. Most of the nurses elected to go along with him to India...