Trinidad’s Doctor’s Office: The amusing diary of a Scottish physician in Trinidad in the 1920s

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Picture this: San Fernando, Trinidad, 1920. Eager for the tropics, the young medicus Dr. Vincent Tothill signs up with the Colonial Service and comes to southern Trinidad, where he first works within the oilfields, then within the sugar factory, and in the end sets up private practice in San Fernando. With Scottish wit and a subtle feel for the local parlance, this young man describes the people he meets and the events that mark the highlights of his sojourn in Trinidad, and at the same time as he obviously fell in love with the people of the island, he does not spare criticism of the Medical Service of the colony. And at the same time as he’s going to make you laugh out loud along with his every so often picaresque adventures, his diary may be a valuable anthropological and historical document, describing the language and customs of Trinidadians in that period.
This book used to be first published by Blackie & Sons in Scotland and is lavishly illustrated with recent photographs, some taken by Dr. Tothill himself, and others added from Paria Publishing’s extensive archives.

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