The Citadel

Hardcover Publisher: Litt Brown; later ptg edition (1938) ASIN: B00693540S Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds When newly qualified doctor Andrew Manson takes up his first post in a Welsh mining community, the young Scot brings with him a bagful of idealism and enthusiasm. Both are soon strained to the limit as Andrew discovers the reality of performing operations on a kitchen table and washing in a scullery, of unspeakable sanitation, of common infantile cholera and enteritis.