MOUNTAIN DOCTOR

by Namora, Fernando. Translated from Portuguese by Dorothy Ball

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Book description: William Kimber, London, (1956), Ist edition.. 200 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photos. "For nine years Doctor Namora worked as a general practitioner among the peasants, gipsies and smugglers of the frontier districts of Central Portugal and Spain, in the remote mountain. s of the Portuguese provinces of Alentejo and Beira Baixa. On his arrival in these parts, he found himself up against the secretiveness and superstitions of a people brutalized by ignorance and poverty. He had to compete against incompetent mid. w i v es and self-appointed 'healers', who preyed on local credulity, but gradually he managed to win the villagers' repect for his scientific methods, whereupon there was a marked decrease in the tuberculosis and typhus in his area..." Small books. to re l abel on front pastedown, 1" x 1/2" piece missing from fore-edge of pages 11/12, endpapers and pages lightly browned, a few pages with tiny light foxing marks, faint foxing to top of textblock, light edge wear, light wrinkling at bottom of s. pin e. Du st jacket has several chips, tears and creases, light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling, light rubbing and soiling, now protected in a mylar sleeve. Good/Fair.

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