title: Labrador Doctor: My Life with the Grenfell Mission (Goodread Biographies)
author:  W. A. Paddon 
description: "An earthy, attractive, and outspoken account." (<i>Atlantic Provinces Book Review</i>)<br /><br />"A thoroughly enjoyable story told by a remarkable man ... a heartwarming tale of high adventure, trials and accomplishments." (<i>Canadian Medical Association Journal</i>)
zlib_text: #  A LABRADOR DOCTOR
  
  ###  THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF  
  WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL  
  M.D. (OXON.), C.M.G.
  
    
  
  ####  WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
  
    
  
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  #####  BOSTON AND NEW YORK  
  HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY  
  The Riverside Press Cambridge
  
    
  
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  #####  COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY WILFRED T. GRENFELL  
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  
    
  
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  ###  PREFACE
  
    
  
  I have long been resisting the strong pressure from friends that would force
  me to risk having to live alongside my own autobiography. It seems still an
  open question whether it is advisable, or even whether it is right—seeing that
  it calls for confessions. In the eyes of God the only alternative is a book of
  lies. Moreover, sitting down to write one's own life story has always loomed
  up before my imagination as an admission that one was passing the post which
  marks the last lap; and though it was a justly celebrated physician who told
  us that we might profitably crawl upon the shelf at half a century, that added
  no attraction 