Unconventional and Outspoken United Church moderator, Dr. Robert McClure, has spent last 40 years as missionary doctor in China, on the Gaza Strip, an(...)
Date9/12/1968
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- Unconventional and Outspoken United Church moderator, Dr. Robert McClure, has spent last 40 years as missionary doctor in China, on the Gaza Strip, and in India (above). He learned art of magnificent improvisation early in missionary work, setting fractured bones with bicycle spokes and slicing off skin for grafts to one twelve-thousandth of an inch with handsaw resembling giant razor blade, as he demonstrates (top right). He is a highly trained surgeon.
- Unconventional and Outspoken United Church moderator, Dr. Robert McClure, has spent last 40 years as missionary doctor in China, on the Gaza Strip, an(...)
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NotesOriginal Toronto Star caption: Unconventional and Outspoken United Church moderator, Dr. Robert McClure, has spent last 40 years as missionary doctor in China, on the Gaza Strip, and in India (above). He learned art of magnificent improvisation early in missionary work, setting fractured bones with bicycle spokes and slicing off skin for grafts to one twelve-thousandth of an inch with handsaw resembling giant razor blade, as he demonstrates (top right). He is a highly trained surgeon.
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