In the front room's "Honor" section, the figures portrayed included the iconic folk hero to the poor Ji Gong (also known as the "crazy monk"); Canadian physician
Norman Bethune, who brought medicine to the front lines of the Second Sino-Japanese War and rural China, and was eulogized by Mao Zedong; the female Eighth Route Army soldiers; masses of happy people; and revolutionary landmarks (for example, the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, where Russia's October Revolution began).
Kathleen Hall, whose Chinese name was He Mingqing, worked with Canadian doctor
Norman Bethune to rescue wounded at the battlefront, with scant regard for her own safety.
She outlines the history, techniques, and methods of blood transfusion before the war, then describes the organization and functioning of the blood transfusion services during the war by outlining the contributions of individuals, such as Catalan hematologist Frederic Duran Jord[sz] (director of the Blood Transfusion Service of the Republican Army), Canadian surgeon
Norman Bethune, British doctor Reg Saxton, Russian transfusionist Sergei Yudin, and Francoist transfusion expert Carlos El segui Sarasola.
Still lesser known participants, including the American surgeon Edward Barsky and the Canadian
Norman Bethune, English volunteer John Sommerfield, and English nurse Patience Darton, round out a patchwork portrait of men and women opposing Franco's forces in "their forlorn hope that success in this small war might forestall a more terrible conflict than any the world had yet suffered."
He was in contact with Frank Scott, Graham Spry, Eugene Forsey, Brooke Claxton,
Norman Bethune, and David Lewis.
Martell is a doctor who shares a number of traits with the radical doctor who remains a major presence in any history of the era,
Norman Bethune. However, in reading the introduction to the recent re-issue of The Watch That Ends the Night by McGill-Queen's University Press, I learned that MacLennan himself considered that Martell had far more affinities with Frank Scott (his pen name being F.
Hero
Norman Bethune, who even Paula Adamik finally admitted to be "a good doctor," was uniquely targeted in these pages, even though Parks Canada has set up a dignified museum (bitter critics have called it a "shrine") at Gravenhurst, the birthplace of the Canadian revolutionary.
One Canadian who made his mark in Spain was Dr
Norman Bethune, who developed a method of bringing mobile blood transfusion units close to battle lines.
Norman Bethune in Spain; commitment, crisis, and conspiracy.
Representatives from the "two CUAs" established the
Norman Bethune Urological Society (NBUS) (CUA signatories were me, Laurence Klotz and Jerzy Gajewski).