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George Walter Caldwell - bibliography

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Biography

American physician, writer and painter, born 1867, Lincoln, Vermont; died 1946, Hollywood, California.

Bibliography

  • Legends of Southern California. Illustrated by Jane Jefferson Flippin.
    San Francisco: Phillips & Van Orden Co., 1919. 101 pages.
  • Ghost Stories of the California Missions and Rhymes of the Gypsy Trail.
    Hollywood, George W. Caldwell, 1939. Illustrations by George F. Mason.
  • Meditations of a Medico. Hollywood, A. L. Caldwell, 1939.
    New edition: House-Warven, Publishers, Hollywood, 1952. Biographical:
  • Tomas Gejrot:
    George Caldwell och Henri Luc: Införde radikalare kirurgisk teknikk för utrymning av abscesser i käkhålan.
    Läkartidningen, Stockholm, 1991, 88 (1-2): 45.
    In the series: Mannen bakom syndromet [The Man Behind the Syndrome].

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