Burma Surgeon

Burma Surgeon by Gordon S. Seagrave, M.D. When the author of this book left for Burma with his young wife, the only surgical instruments he had were some broken ones salvaged from the wastebasket at John Hopkins.  He began his work in Burma as a medical missionary in the North Shan States.  Energetically he went to work, training native girls to become skilled nurses, and ingeniously developing his own skill in many different kinds of surgery.  When the hospital became too small and they...