The Story of Dr. Wassell [antikvár]

FOREWORD lORYDON WASSELL was bom on July 4 (a good date), 1884, at Little Rock, Arkansas — a good place that can also claim Douglas MacArthur as one of its sons. The Wassell family came originally from Kidderminster, England, and the "Corydon" came from —well, nobody seems to know. Young Cory enjoyed a mixed education and a wandering youth; he did not decide on a profession till he was twenty-two. Then he studied at Johns Hopkins, after which he graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1909 and began practising in the small Arkansas village of Tillar. For the next five years he faced the usual struggles, problems, and hardships of a young doctor, but he was a gay sort of fellow, fond of a good time and a good story, and by no means depressed by a world in which the desires of the few so manifestly outweigh the needs of the many. He did, however, find himself tddng sides in it —rather as Moliere's M. Jourdain