THE HEALING KNIFE: A Surgeon's Destiny

by George Sava ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

This reads like fiction, and yet the publishers state that this is the pen name of a noted Harley Street surgeon. He tells the story of his discovery that he must be a surgeon when he is called upon to perform an emergency operation with a penknife when his closest friend is dying during the break-up of the White Russian naval force on the Caspian. Adventures in escape -- an Italian prison in Constantinople -- his start through the friendship of a powerful Bey -- his menial work in a gynaecological laboratory when he stole opportunities to study anatony and dissection in the mortuary -- his stolen ride to Paris -- his studies financed by work as a waiter -- his disillusionment through the girl he loved and his throwing off of all ambition -- his strange adventure with the Spanish gypsies -- his return to his fate in Florence -- and his final graduation with high honors and the start on a brilliant career, which took him to Germany and England. First rate adventure reading with the medical side secondary.

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Publisher: Harcourt, Brace

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1938

Categories: NONFICTION