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Manson, Ainslie

House Calls: The True Story of a Pioneer Doctor

56 pp. | Groundwood | October, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-88899-446-X $$15.95
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Mary Jane Gerber. Using a fictional story illustrated with stiff artwork, Manson describes the work of real-life physician John Hutchinson, who tended to patients in an early-1800s frontier town. Informational sidebars describing the tools and medicines used at that time are interesting and well written; in contrast, the fictional story seems artificial--a straight nonfiction approach would have been more effective. Bib., glos.
Reviewer: Anne St. John

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