R190.00
Price: R190.00
Edition: Second edition
Published: 1951
Publishers: Frederick Muller Ltd
Condition: Cloth hardcover in good condition, with minor shelf wear around the edges of the cover and top and bottom of the spine. Also discolouration on the spine. Foxing on the end-papers, otherwise internally in very good condition – very clean and tightly bound.
“In My Patients Were Zulus, Dr. James McCord tells of the many exciting events of his professional life in Durban, Africa – for example, of going twenty-five miles into the deepest jungle bush at night on foot to deliver a Zulu baby. He coped with native herbalists, witch doctors, and “smellers-out,” who, with a death-hold over the native tribes, smelled for those members of the kraals “with the scent of evil.” He performed all types of operations, from appendectomies and removal of tumors to brain surgery – under the most primitive conditions. He fought malaria, scrofula, tuberculosis – and, on occasion, the natives themselves. Commissioned a captain in the Natal Native Horse regiment, McCord helped quell Bambata’s Rebellion. For forty years the McCords – James and his devoted wife Margaret – lived an extraordinary life. They revolutionized the relationship between the whites and the Zulus. They built clinics, dispensaries, a training school for nurses, and the now-famous McCord Zulu Hospital in Durban, and inspired a school for Zulu doctors. His life was a continual legal tangle with his professional associates and the white leaders of Durban, who opposed his plans. However, the love and support of his wife, Margaret, and his close friends, like Dr. Alan Taylor and, most of all, the grateful natives, helped him to realize his lifelong dreams, making this one of the inspiring stories of this age.”
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“In My Patients Were Zulus, Dr. James McCord tells of the many exciting events of his professional life in Durban, Africa – for example, of going twenty-five miles into the deepest jungle bush at night on foot to deliver a Zulu baby. He coped with native herbalists, witch doctors, and “smellers-out,” who, with a death-hold over the native tribes, smelled for those members of the kraals “with the scent of evil.” He performed all types of operations, from appendectomies and removal of tumors to brain surgery – under the most primitive conditions. He fought malaria, scrofula, tuberculosis – and, on occasion, the natives themselves. Commissioned a captain in the Natal Native Horse regiment, McCord helped quell Bambata’s Rebellion. For forty years the McCords – James and his devoted wife Margaret – lived an extraordinary life. They revolutionized the relationship between the whites and the Zulus. They built clinics, dispensaries, a training school for nurses, and the now-famous McCord Zulu Hospital in Durban, and inspired a school for Zulu doctors. His life was a continual legal tangle with his professional associates and the white leaders of Durban, who opposed his plans. However, the love and support of his wife, Margaret, and his close friends, like Dr. Alan Taylor and, most of all, the grateful natives, helped him to realize his lifelong dreams, making this one of the inspiring stories of this age.”
Price: R190.00
Edition: Second edition
Published: 1951
Publishers: Frederick Muller Ltd
Condition: Cloth hardcover in good condition, with minor shelf wear around the edges of the cover and top and bottom of the spine. Also discolouration on the spine. Foxing on the end-papers, otherwise internally in very good condition – very clean and tightly bound.
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| Weight | 200 g |
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