Doctor Mary in Arabia : memoirs / by Mary Bruins Allison ; edited by Sandra Shaw ; introduction by Lucie Wood Saunders, John Clarke Saunders.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-167) and index.

1. Early Life : Earliest Memories - Milwaukee Childhood - Pella, Iowa, and Adolescence - Central College - Graduation and My First Job -- 2. Medical Training : The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania - Internships -- 3. Early Years in Kuwait : Getting There - A New Life - Coming Out in Kuwaiti Society - Kuwait City - Mission History - Dr. Mylrea - Living with Mary Van Pelt - Weddings - My First Case - Under the Knife - Home - Mistake -- 4. A Real Doctor : Practicing Medicine in Kuwait, 1936 - Cases in the Early Years - Trachoma - The Summer's Heat - Expectations and Disappointments -- 5. Medicine and Marriage : The Way of a Man with a Maid - Scotland to Kuwait, Overland,1939 - Back to Work! - A New Hospital, a New Nurse - Cases - Ayisha, and My Other Patients - Spring - With Norman in India -- 6. The War Years : Back to the U.S.A., January 1942 - Divorce - The Dahanu Road Mission Hospital (India) - Monsoon - Asked Back -- 7. Kuwait Practice Renewed, 1945 : New Faces - New Cases - New Problems - Four Months at Qatar, 1948 - Changes and Obstetrics in Kuwait - Oman 1949 - Running the Show in Kuwait - Slaves - To U.S.A. on Furlough, 1950 - Kuwait Builds, 1951 - Cars and Schools - Kuwaiti Women's Lives and Health in the 1950s - The Morning Clinic - Kuwait Women's Medical Report to the Board - October 1954 -- 8. Questions of Mission : A Question of Mission - Kuwait Hosts the Annual Mission Meeting, 1955 - Shirley and the Shaikh - Kuwait Internationalizes - Ramadan and Clinics, 1954 - Converts - Another Question of Mission ; Air-Conditioners - Mission 1955-1956 - The Board Reassesses the Missions - Applying the Board's Suggestions - Iraq's Threat ; Kuwait's Growth - A New View of Islam -- 9. Changes in the Mission Field, 1958 : Back to the Mission - Fresh Recruits - The Sixties in Kuwait - My Brother, Paul Bruins - Times of Sorrow - Furlough, 1964-1965 -- 10. Bahrain : Bahrain's Historical Background - Mission in Bahrain - Cases - The Closing of Kuwait's Medical Mission, March 1967 - Interlude in Oman, 1968 - Back to Bahrain, Fall 1968 to the U.S.A. - Vacation in Kuwait, 1968 - Bahrain, 1970 - Back to U.S.A. - The Way Back: Bahrain's New Church -- 11. Oman : Oman, 1971 - Historical Background of Oman - The Mutrah Hospital - The Mutrah Morning Clinic - Malaria - Cholera - Leprosy - Tazeea for Dr. Wells Thoms, October 1971 - Diversions, 1972 - Travels in Oman, October and November 1972 - Kuwait Revisited - My Last Year - Return to Dahanu Road - Cholera Epidemic - Turnover -- Statistics and Hospital Data : Annual Reports of the Kuwait Women's Hospital to the Mission Board in New York - American Mission Hospital - Kuwait - Bahrain Attendance Records for Eleven Months of 1969 - Oman Mission Hospitals - Statistics, June 1 to Dec. 31, 197I - Mutrah, Oman ; Hospital Statistics, 1973 - Muscat, Oman ; Assaada Hospital Statistics, 1973.