Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Richard Gordon

Born: September 15, 1921
Died: August 11, 2017 (aged 95)
Bio: Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere, an English surgeon and anaesthetist.
Known for:
- Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal (1999)
- Doctor in the House (1952)
- The New Human: Discovering and Becoming (2013)
- The Alarming History of Medicine (1993)
- Doctor on the Brain (1972)