An  American doctor's odyssey
Subtitle: adventures in forty-five countries
By: by Victor Heiser, M.D.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (printed and bound for the publishers by the Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. Camden,  N.J.)
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Rockefeller foundation. International health board; Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Public health -- East Asia; Tropical medicine; Public health -- Philippines
Description: orange/mustard cloth boards (6th impression, Nov. 1936)
green compass rose with doctor insignia and fern centered on front cover
title on spine within green rectangle centered on spine


brown end papers with map of africa, middle east, asia, australia and south pacific in white
Notes: Maps on lining-papers.
"First edition."
Table of contents: title: I.  Just Short of Eternity...3; title: II.  The Lame and the Halt...8; title: III.  The Promised Land...20; title: IV.  And Bid the Sickness Cease...36; title: V.  Little Brown Brother...40; title: VI.  Washing Up the Orient...59; title: VII.  The Black Death...79; title: VIII.  Eat, Drink and Be Merry...100; title: IX. Water, Water, Everywhere...121; title: X.  Not With Beat of Drum...133; title: XI.  For Their Own Good...151; title: XII.  The Heavenly Flower...176; title: XIII. Alas and a Lack...192; title: XIV.  The House of Pain...211; title: XV.  Prisoners of Hope...235; title: XVI.  Dividends from Philanthropy...265; title: XVII.  A Drummer of Ideas...291; title: XVIII. Much I Have Traveled...308; title: XIX.  Snakes in Eden...327; title: XX.  The White Man's Last Refuge...344; title: XXI.  Parasites Lost and Parasites Regained ...358; title: XXII. Fish stories...386; title: XXIII. A great little people...395; title: XXIV. Picking up broken threads...417; title: XXV. An ounce of prevention...437; title: XXVI. And make persuasion do the work of fear...461; title: XXVII. Hustling the East...480; title: XXVIII. Pearl of great price...503; title: XXIX. Pilgrim's progress...519; title: XXX. Grant but memory...532; title: Index...537