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DOCTOR OLDS OF TWILLINGATE: PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN SURGEON IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

DOCTOR OLDS OF TWILLINGATE: PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN SURGEON IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

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DOCTOR OLDS OF TWILLINGATE: PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN SURGEON IN NEWFOUNDLAND.

by Saunders, Gary L

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ISBN 10
1550810928
ISBN 13
9781550810929
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St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater, 1997. 367 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, illustrations. "John Olds grew up in Connecticut, sailed on Long Island Sound, played polo for Yale and went to medical school at Johns Hopkins. As a third year medical student he went on a summer's adventure to an unheard of hospital in the equally obscure town of Twillingate in Newfoundland, at that time Great Britain's oldest colony. The summer's experience was offered to Hopkins students, as an elective, to show them medicine as practiced outside the metropolitan centers. It also gave them more hands-on experience than medical school could offer to a junior student. Most came for the summer and then relegated to memory their novel experience with the hospitable, gentle people, the chance to do deliveries and appendectomies, and the rustic maritime beauty of the place. (John Olds) liked it so well that upon graduation in 1932 he returned, bringing (his wife), whom he had met there in 1930 as a Hopkins nursing student. They decided to stay a year; the year turned into their lifetimes." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, light rubbing, small crease at bottom corner of front cover.. Third Printing. Soft Cover with Self Flaps. Very Good+.

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Bookseller
Capricorn Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
25341
Title
DOCTOR OLDS OF TWILLINGATE: PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN SURGEON IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
Author
Saunders, Gary L
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
Third Printing
ISBN 10
1550810928
ISBN 13
9781550810929
Publisher
Breakwater
Place of Publication
St. John's, Newfoundland
Date Published
1997
Keywords
John McKee Olds, Surgeons, Biography, Peter Troake, Connecticut, Loomis, Yale, Alaska, Hopkins, Beriberi, Dog sleds, Hospitals, Sealing, Alcohol, Gillett's Lye, Consumption, Surgery, Carmanville, Nurses, Nursing, Naturalists, Newfoundland, Doctors, Jo
Bookseller catalogs
Health & Medicine; Canada - Biography; Canada - Newfoundland & Labrador;

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