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Cut Boldly Down: Medicine, Nature and A Life of Curiosity, A Surgeon's Memoirs (First Edition, Publisher Copy)

$24.95

FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER COPY (5 COPIES AVAILABLE).

  • 183 pages

  • 11 × 9

  • Hardcover

  • ISBN1-882203-712

  • Copyright 2001

By Nathan S. Hale, M.D.

Early in the last century, a surgeon named Kelley Hale opened a tiny hospital in connected houses on Locust Street in Wilmington, Ohio, performing most of his operations on kitchen tables. It was the beginning of modern medicine in Clinton County, a practice that would continue—father and son—through most of the century.

Kelley was a practiced eccentric—as were most of the Hales—wearing his white operating cap at night to keep his head warm. He was known to stop and lecture folks who spit upon the sidewalk. He insisted that his son, Nathan, attend a year of art school before he went into medical school for he believed the human body was lovely, even under duress.

Such lessons were not lost on Nathan, who would later describe an operation: “It was beautiful there—the heart beating, the arteries pulsating, the warmth of the living body with its softness, its elasticity, its beauty, lying there for only the privileged few to see, to hold, and to experience.”

FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER COPY (5 COPIES AVAILABLE).

  • 183 pages

  • 11 × 9

  • Hardcover

  • ISBN1-882203-712

  • Copyright 2001

By Nathan S. Hale, M.D.

Early in the last century, a surgeon named Kelley Hale opened a tiny hospital in connected houses on Locust Street in Wilmington, Ohio, performing most of his operations on kitchen tables. It was the beginning of modern medicine in Clinton County, a practice that would continue—father and son—through most of the century.

Kelley was a practiced eccentric—as were most of the Hales—wearing his white operating cap at night to keep his head warm. He was known to stop and lecture folks who spit upon the sidewalk. He insisted that his son, Nathan, attend a year of art school before he went into medical school for he believed the human body was lovely, even under duress.

Such lessons were not lost on Nathan, who would later describe an operation: “It was beautiful there—the heart beating, the arteries pulsating, the warmth of the living body with its softness, its elasticity, its beauty, lying there for only the privileged few to see, to hold, and to experience.”