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Hideyo Noguchi was a Japanese doctor and bacteriologist whose research in such diseases as general paralysis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, trachoma, and yellow fever brought him renown during his adult life.
Almost nothing is known of his boyhood except for two facts that in themselves could have prevented his ever becoming a doctor: his family's drastic poverty, and a pitifully crippled left hand. What could have inspired a boy who suffered cold, hunger, and ridicule to fight his way to the successful accomplishment of a great ambition?
Dan D'Amelio tells with sympathy and imagination how a twelve-year-old boy "with a deformed hand but a brilliant mind" discovered his own dedication to the cause of medicine. It was a hard road and a weary one that he traveled to reach his goal, but the career that followed his medical training at the University of Tokyo is one of the most impressive in medical history.
Unpretentiously written, this is a story of rare courage, devotion, and compassion, fully believable of a man who said that his greatest ambition was "to help extend the light, leaving the world a little less dark than he had found it."
—from the dust jacket
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