Frank G. Slaughter, 93, a physician who drew on his professional knowledge to launch a career as the author of 62 novels that sold 60 million copies, died May 17 at his home in Jacksonville, Fla. The cause of death was not reported. ...

Frank G. Slaughter, 93, a physician who often drew on his medical knowledge in his career as a best-selling novelist, died May 17 at his home, where he had lived for nearly 50 years. The cause of death was not reported. While also...

Luke, "the beloved physician," the New Testament lyricist, author of the lovely Gospel which bears his name, and of The Acts of the Apostles, is the central figure of ["The Road to Bithynia"]. As a Biblical novel and a doctor novel it combines two traditionally popular subjects, and Dr. Slaughter makes of it an absorbing, well-told narrative which is certain to find a wide readership. Yet the numerous works of this kind force the reviewer of each new one to make at least a broad ...

Days after some puzzling human deaths at sea, rats scurry down the gangway of an ancient tramp steamer as it docks in Manhattan. The captain, victim of a disease contracted from deckhands illegally signed on in West Africa, visits his blowsy girl friend in her apartment. The rats over-run a sleeping drunk. The captain kisses his female friend—who happens to come into contact with hundreds as a cafeteria cashier. Thus does Frank G. Slaughter, busiest medical author of the day, chronicler of Biblical, ...

["That None Should Die"] is an unusual novel about medicine in the United States. It is a story no layman could have told—that no layman, for that matter, would have been justified in trying to tell. It is a story that no doctor of all those who have written books in recent years has had the courage and bluntness to attempt. Dr. Frank G. Slaughter, a young Florida physician, is sharply critical of medicine as it is now practiced. He believes that the present policies of organized medici...