American Medical Center for Burma

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)