Clapesattle, Helen

The doctors Mayo / Helen Clapesattle. - Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press, 1941. - xiv, 822 p. : ill., portraits.

Includes index With hardcover

Cont.: The paradox of Rochester -- The old doctor. The way westward -- On the Minnesota frontier -- Civil War days -- Rochester then -- Horse-and-buggy doctor -- Pioneer in surgery -- The Mayo brothers. Will and Charlie -- At medical school -- From father to son -- By act of God and the Sisters of St. Francis -- Young doctors from the West -- Applying the new surgery -- The radius lengthens -- ... and company -- Recognition won -- The surgeons club -- Target and magnet -- The clinic takes shape -- Clinic and Foundation. To the people, from whom it came -- The Clinic and the First World War -- Toward the future -- On the frontiers of medicine -- Training young doctors -- My brother and I -- A living memorial.

Tells the story of the Mayo brothers and their contribution to the field of medicine.


Mayo, William Worrall 1819-1911.
Mayo, Charles H. 1865-1939 (Charles Horace)