Cut Boldly Down: Medicine, Nature, and a Life of Curiosity : A Surgeon's Memoir

by Hale, Nathan Scowden

• ISBN13: 9781882203710
• ISBN10: 1882203712
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Orange Frazer Pr Inc

Summary

In this memoir of medicine, the reader is infected with the same germ of discovery that afflicted the author. Suffused with the development of healing in Wilmington and Clinton County, Ohio, it is also a paean to a charmed smalltown existence that may no longer exist. Dr. Hale's portrait is filled with a vast panoply of bird dogs, horsemen, chickens, taxi drivers, storytellers, explorers -- all manner of implausible and impertinent smalltown characters both living and dead. His warm, evocative book, and handsome photographs (including a jar of tonsils containing most of Clinton County's DNA) make the reader yearn for such a place as well as such a voyage -- one so full, so productive, and, finally, so incredibly alive.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Childhood	2	(36)
Sorrow	4	(8)
My first trip of exploration	12	(3)
The adventure of the Hale boys at play in the chickenyard	15	(3)
Spring makes me think of buck sheep	18	(4)
Down the river with the intrepid Hale boys	22	(5)
Cabin in a beech woods	27	(3)
Myron and I beyond the 12-mile reef	30	(4)
An unseasonable man	34	(4)
School	38	(20)
Love and the little red bug	40	(4)
The anatomy lab	44	(5)
The Siberian sojourn	49	(7)
A touch of honey	56	(2)
Medicine	58	(38)
The healing heart	60	(14)
A moment with Dr. Fullerton	74	(2)
Doctor operates on swinger	76	(2)
Ara's good angel	78	(2)
Hydrocele fluid goes high velocity	80	(2)
Havoc at the Elks Lodge	82	(1)
An umpire makes his call	83	(2)
A pathetic ugly story	85	(2)
Roderick Telfair takes a trip in the South Equatorial current	87	(2)
Mothersole, hair apparent	89	(2)
Breathing room	91	(5)
Characters	96	(38)
Black like us: A love story	98	(10)
Dr. Sabin visits his client	108	(4)
Bill Bailey recounts his experience with sex education in grade school	112	(2)
Frank's field trip	114	(4)
Herm, Moe Ginsberg, and the stuffed chicken	118	(5)
Jim takes a flyer, or: Film at eleven	123	(4)
Bobby, cholesterol, and conviviality	127	(4)
Jake, on point	131	(3)
Nate, himself	134	(2)
Spanish opera, Filipino style	136	(6)
Wiled turkey	142	(6)
In quest of the elusive trilobite in the pits of Sylvania, Ohio	148	(4)
Portrait of the young animal	152	(2)
Splendid Egypt	154	(3)
Ghosts of Christmases past	157