Burma Surgeon

AMERICANS will be proud of this book, for Dr. Seagrave’s courage and resourcefulness, great-heartedness, humor, and simple, straightforward prose are all American. When he went to Burma in 1922 as missionary surgeon, he had with him a sympathetic, helpful wife and a wastebasket of discarded surgical instruments. The next twenty years were busy: he overcame the natives’ distrust of surgery and medicine; he trained his phenomenally able and charming native nurses; largely by his own labor he built a hospital; he scampered along the Burma Road while it was under construction and cared for the builders; and finally, when war came, he climaxed all these achievements by performing surgical miracles for the Chinese soldiers, our own Flying Tigers, and General StilwelFs outfit. It is a book filled with great deeds, touching sympathy, and kind humor — and those nurses will make any man want to go to Burma for his next operation.