Cut Boldly Down: Medicine, Nature, and a Life of Curiosity : A Surgeon's Memoir

In this memoir of medicine, the reader is infected with the same germ of discovery that afflicted the author. Suffused with the development of healing in Wilmington and Clinton County, Ohio, it is also a paean to a charmed smalltown existence that may no longer exist. Dr. Hale's portrait is filled with a vast panoply of bird dogs, horsemen, chickens, taxi drivers, storytellers, explorers -- all manner of implausible and impertinent smalltown characters both living and dead. His warm, evocative book, and handsome photographs (including a jar of tonsils containing most of Clinton County's DNA) make the reader yearn for such a place as well as such a voyage -- one so full, so productive, and, finally, so incredibly alive.Nathan Scowden Hale is the author of 'Cut Boldly Down: Medicine, Nature, and a Life of Curiosity : A Surgeon's Memoir' with ISBN 9781882203710 and ISBN 1882203712.