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Edmund A. Brasset
Edward A. Brasset (1907-1960) was a Canadian-born physician and author.
Born on March 17, 1907 at Inverness, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, he was brought up in one of the gray company houses in...view moreEdward A. Brasset (1907-1960) was a Canadian-born physician and author.
Born on March 17, 1907 at Inverness, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, he was brought up in one of the gray company houses in this small mining town, and as a boy walked in bare feet on the packed cinders of the streets. He received his M.D.C.M. (C.M.—Master of Surgery) from the Dalhousie School of Medicine in Halifax, before entering on the fifteen dramatic years (1934-1949) described in this book.
Dr. Brasset married Sally MacNeil, a nurse in the New Waterford Hospital, in 1937, and they went on to have five children—Ronnie, John, Donna, James and Paul. The first “joyous event” came in the midst of an avalanche of letters of “Final Warning” from numerous creditors, with the specter Worry looking on, in a hospital for the violently insane where both parents were working.
In 1949 the Brasset family moved to Wakefield, Rhode Island, overlooking Narragansett Bay. In the months of waiting before a license to practice in this state came through, Dr. Brasset started his book, with the aid of his five children, who made the keys of the typewriter sticky with candy, drew fishes and pigs on the pages of the manuscript, and played Indians under the table, using the author’s legs for trees.
The Brassets eventually moved to the United States, where Dr. Brasset passed away in Sonoma, California on December 2, 1960, aged 53.view less