Missionary doctor
Subtitle: the story of twenty years in Africa
By: by Mary Floyd Cushman, M.D.
Contributors: Harper & Brothers
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Publishers Harper & Brothers
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York and London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Copyright date: 1944
Subjects: Religious Missions; Women Physicians; Women physicians; Medical Missionaries; Personal narratives; Biography
Notes: Front endpapers are a map of French Equatorial Africa.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Early experiences.; title: At last --; title: On the way --; title: Journey's end --; title: First days --; title: My house and I -- -- Part 2. The country and the people.; title: "People of the mist" --; title: Beliefs --; title: Witch doctor --; title: An Umbundu village --; title: "Her price is far above rubies" --; title: "A little child shall lead them" --; title: "Suku" speaks --; title: The new life --; title: The fire hunt --; title: Travel ways --; title: "There is in souls a sympathy with sounds" --; title: "For they were craftsmen" -- -- Part 3. Things that live and grow.; title: Living creatures --; title: Snake stories --; title: "The green Earth" -- -- Part 4. Later experiences; title: Furlough --; title: Ocileso Hospital --; title: Native dispensers --; title: Leper camps --; title: Sapunga --; title: The Camerouns --; title: Kapuka --; title: Cambula --; title: At the coast --; title: Not the end.