American Medical Center for Burma

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Biographical Note

Gordon Stifler Seagrave

1897, Mar. 18 Born, Rangoon, Burma 1917 A.B., Denison University, Granville, Ohio 1920 Married Marion Grace Morse 1921 M.D., Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Md. 1922 1965 Practiced medicine, Namkham Hospital, Namkhan, Burma, with a four-year absence from 1942 to 1946 1930 Published Waste-Basket Surgery. Philadelphia and Boston: Judson Press 1938 Published Tales of a Waste-Basket Surgeon. Philadelphia and Boston: Judson Press 1942 1946 Served in United States Army Medical Corps, first as Major and later as Lieutenant Colonel 1943 Published Burma Surgeon. New York: W.W. Norton and Co. 1946 Published Burma Surgeon Returns. New York: W.W. Norton and Co. 1955 Published My Hospital in the Hills. New York: W.W. Norton and Co. 1960 Published Life of a Burma Surgeon. New York: Ballantine Books 1965, Mar. 29 Died, Namkhan, Burma

From the guide to the American Medical Center for Burma Records, 1945-1966, (bulk 1959-1965), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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  • Namkhan (Burma) (as recorded)
  • Burma (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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