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Doctor in Rags

(Religious Heritage)

Louise A. Vernon,

Allan Eitzen (Illustrator)

3.86 · Rating details · 7 ratings · 2 reviews

Hutterites are known for their natural medicines and living in Bruderhofs. Michael Bruhn, his sister Gudryn, and their widowed mother live in a castle in Moravia. When a doctor wearing ragged clothing heals Gudryn, Michael thinks he, too, must be a Hutterite. Later, Michael learns that this doctor in rags is the famous physican Paracelsus. Michael is impressed and begins t ...more

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Published January 3rd 2003 by Herald Press (first published 1973)

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Apr 13, 2016 Janice rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Love the books written by Louise A. Vernon. My parents bought me my first one in 1965 for Christmas. The title of it is Strangers in the Land. I think I have 13 books written by her.

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About Louise A. Vernon

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Born in Coquille, Oregon, on March 6, 1914, Vernon later graduated from Willamette University. An author of children's books about religious heritage and historical fiction, Vernon has seen numerous books published in series form. After traveling abroad to research her subjects, Vernon has penned novels about John Wesley, William Tyndale, John Wycliffe, and Johann Gutenberg, to name a few. Several ...more