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Tyre, Robert
Saddlebag Surgeon: The Story of Dr. Murrough O'Brien
Paperback
1958, Harlequin 437
Condition: good
Until he opened his first one in the small town of Dominion City, Manitoba, in 1901, Dr. Murrough O'Brien had no hospital for his surgical cases. The call to use his knife almost always came at moments of emergency. By lamplight, in the wretched huts of frightened immigrants, he did his surgery on a bed or a kitchen table. A basin on the stove boiled his instruments, and the trembling hand of a family member or a neighbour dripped chloroform to the gauze-masked patient while the scalpel began its work. To the saddlebag surgeons of fifty years ago, such dramatic situations were a matter of routine; so were hardships and difficulties of many different kinds. Murrough O'Brien was to find this out when he left England for Canada in 1890 after arousing the disapproval of his family by failing his final examinations at medical school. After several years of adventure he finished his medical training at Manitoba Medical College and set up his first surgery in a shack behind a Chinese laundry in Dominion City, Manitoba. The story of his medical practice on the Canadian prairies is indeed an absorbing one.
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