The Cry in the Night: Dramas From the Life of a Doctor

"It was the human, the personal side of medicine that left upon me its lasting impressions."

Charles S Norburn (1890-1990), a surgeon and general practitioner who founded his own hospital, vividly retells his most memorable experiences from a long career in The Cry in the Night.

These works tell the story of medicine in the first half of the 20th century. It was an era without many specializations and a surgeon did all surgeries from minor setting of broken limbs, to brain surgery. A docto...