Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor

With a Foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the bestseller In the Heart of the Sea

If you need an appendectomy, he can do it with a stone scalpel he carved himself. If you have a condition nobody can diagnose — "creeping eruption" perhaps — he can identify what it is, and treat it. A baby with toe-tourniquet syndrome, a human leg that's washed ashore, a horse with Lyme disease, a narcoleptic falling face-first in the street, a hermit living underground — hardly anything is off-limits ...