Two books have been written about John Lionel Stretton, Lionel’s autobiography and Nigel Gilbert’s history of the Stretton family’s medical history. Both are available for sale on the site.
This is Lionel’s story, in his own words, but with an additional 45 pages of material added as an Addenda, reproducing much of his published material, including the original iodine paper from the British Medical Journal in 1909.
Dr Stretton, I Presume! is a local medical and social history book by Nigel Gilbert that tells the story of three generations of the Stretton family and their impact on healthcare in Kidderminster between 1856 and 1952. It uses their lives and careers as surgeons to explore how medicine, surgery and public health evolved in a provincial English town over nearly a century.
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