Click Here. Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE! Check out my other items! Be sure to add me to your favorites list! A DOCTOR'S PILGRIMAGE,AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, EDMUND A. BRASSETT, M.D. PUBLISHED BY LIPPINCOTT COPYRIGHT 1951 1ST EDITION Edmund A. Brassett, M.D. (pronounced Bra-say) "I am no Grenfell," said young intern Brassett to Canada's famous Dr. John B. Thompson, but he agreed to go to the Canso, Nova Scotia, as sole doctor for 2,000 people, remote from the world. So begins the story of a doctor's pilgrimage that describes the early trials and travels of a warm, human, and completely deligthful general practitioner. Young Dr. Brassett wanted to become a brain surgeon, but lacked the money. In desolate Canso, relay station for the Atlantic cable, his first patient was a sick baby fed only on dry cod. He went in debt $3,600.00 in six months, his largest fee being twenty-two dollars he collected from three drunken men by beating them up. Temporay work is a mining town proved little better, but resulted in marriage to the lovely Sally McNeil. At rural Little Brook, where lived descendants of 900 Acadians returned from their historic flight, the first patient proved to be a 1400-pound ox; but fortunes improved and eventually there came the opportunity for brain surgery at the great hospital - but by now Dr. Bassett's experience with people had changed his ambition. The tragic, the painful, the touching, the funny incidents of this warmhearted tale reveal how, through the author's great courage and humour, what could have been a very grim battle became in reality a very happy story.  This book has suffered from some dampness at some time, although it still has sound binding and is in good shape.

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