Word: serocold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HORNETS' NEST-Helen Ashton-Macmillan ($2.50). A clever, tightly-constructed story of complications in the lives of three doctors, the staff of a nursing home and the inhabitants of an English provincial town resulting from a swab left in the incision after an appendectomy. Miss Ashton, whose Dr. Serocold treated of 24 hours in the life of a physician, was herself a War nurse, holds a medical degree from the London Hospital. She writes with clean, surgical precision. Her description of the appendectomy has the brutal clarity of a hospital painting by the late Thomas Eakins...
FAMILY CRUISE - Helen Ashton - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A Mediterranean cruise, family problems, happy endings. Author Ashton's Dr. Serocold promised better things...
Domesticity is often thought to be drab, is capable of dreary interpretations. In Dr. Serocold (TIME, July 14), Helen Ashton showed how fetching a story she could make of a country doctor's 24 hours; in Mackerel Sky she tackles an even grimmer subject and makes it cheerfully readable...
...medical experience. Handsome, dark, young, she lives in London with her husband. Said he one day: it would be impossible to write a whole book, and make it interesting, about one day in the life of a country doctor. Authoress Ashton fooled him. She wrote most of Dr. Serocold on fishing trips in Ireland, scribbling in little notebooks in a microscopic hand which the rain helped make illegible to anyone else. She has also written three children's books...
...Serocold is the choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club for July...