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Title: Star Surgeon

Author: Alan Nourse

Release Date: June 2, 2006 [EBook #18492]

Language: English

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STAR SURGEON

by

ALAN E. NOURSE

[Transcriber's note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence
that the copyright on this publication was renewed.]

DAVID McKAY COMPANY, INC.

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT (C) 1959, 1960 BY ALAN E. NOURSE

_All rights reserved_

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 60-7199

Manufactured in the United States of America

VAN REES PRESS . NEW YORK

_Typography by Charles M. Todd_

Sixth Printing, April 1973

Part of this book was published in _Amazing Science Fiction Stories_

CONTENTS

1 The Intruder 3
2 Hospital Seattle 15
3 The Inquisition 25
4 The Galactic Pill Peddlers 37
5 Crisis on Morua VIII 54
6 Tiger Makes a Promise 66
7 Alarums and Excursions 78
8 Plague! 98
9 The Incredible People 107
10 The Boomerang Clue 121
11 Dal Breaks a Promise 136
12 The Showdown 151
13 The Trial 165
14 Star Surgeon 175

STAR SURGEON

CHAPTER 1

THE INTRUDER

The shuttle plane from the port of Philadelphia to Hospital Seattle had
already gone when Dal Timgar arrived at the loading platform, even
though he had taken great pains to be at least thirty minutes early for
the boarding.

"You'll just have to wait for the next one," the clerk at the
dispatcher's desk told him unsympathetically. "There's nothing else you
can do."

"But I _can't_ wait," Dal