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...BURMA SURGEON - Gordon S. Sea-grave-Norton...
...Seagrave who came out of Burma with General Stilwell (TIME, July 20, 1942) has published a book. He is no writer. But he is a man of such heart and energy and action that his 295-page book, jammed with adventure and medical science, is intensely affecting...
...Ugly Doctor. In 1902, when Gordon Stifler Seagrave was five years old, he decided to become a medical missionary in the Shan States of Burma. Twenty years later, with Johns Hopkins Medical School behind him, he began. The American Baptist Foreign Mission sent him and his wife "Tiny" to take charge of a 20-bed hospital at Namkham, a village near the Chinese border on the not-yet-built Burma Road...
...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...
...girl who had failed all her studies in school. All were little things weighing from 80 to 110 pounds. All eventually learned Burmese, and some learned English. They were excellent nurses when Seagrave got through, and to everyone's surprise the 30 or so who walked from Burma into Assam behind Stilwell stood the trip better than any of the other marchers...