No one would mistake Lloyd C. Douglas’ Disputed Passage for literature, but the plot and characters are far above the pot boiler level.
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Doctors Lock Horns in Service of Science
Posted in 1939 Bestselling Novels, Medical, Religious, Romance, tagged China, Lloyd C. Douglas, Medical research, scientists on July 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Egyptian should have kept his story to himself
Posted in 1949 Bestselling Novels, Fictional memoir, Medical, tagged Egypt, history, medicine, Middle East, Mika Waltari on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Egyptian is Mika Waltari’s fictional memoir of the life of a physician in the days of the pharaohs. Readers will find a new interesting historical bits in this novel, but it’s entertainment value is nil.
