The Doctor's Red Lamp
A Book of Short Stories Concerning the Doctor's Daily Life
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664634863
Table of Contents
DOCTOR SANTOS: A CHARACTER SKETCH.
JOHN BARTINE’S WATCH: THE DOCTOR’S STORY.
THE VARIOUS TEMPERS OF GRANDMOTHER GREGG.
ON THE INDIA FRONTIER: THE DOCTOR’S STORY.
DR. GLADMAN, A SKETCH OF COLONIAL LIFE.
THE COMING OF THE SHIP: THE DOCTOR’S PATIENT.
DR. PENNINGTON’S COUNTRY PRACTICE.
THE DOCTOR: AN OLD VIRGINIA FOX HUNTER.
PREFACE
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IN PREPARING this book of short stories concerning the doctor’s daily life, the editor has availed himself of the counsel of his staff of editorial associates, and he trusts that this volume will prove equally acceptable as the other works in The Doctor’s Recreation Series.
The stories themselves are offered without critical comment. Many of them are old favorites. Many of them are by well-known and standard authors. All relate some episode in the doctor’s life in a manner both striking and original. We believe this is the first volume of its kind ever offered to the public.
For the courtesy of copyright privileges extended we return thanks to S. S. McClure Co., The Century Co., Harper & Brothers, J. B. Lippincott Co., Little, Brown & Co., Macmillan & Co., John Brisben Walker, Joseph Kirkland, Dr. Conan Doyle, Lucy S. Furman, Ambrose Bierce, Rev. John Watson, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Margaret Sutton Briscoe, Henry Seton Merriman, and Maud Wilder Goodwin.
C. W. M.
Buffalo, March 18, 1904.
THE DOCTOR’S RED LAMP.
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I.
THE SURGEON’S MIRACLE.
“POOR Abe Dodge.”
That’s what they called him, though he wasn’t any poorer than other folks—not so poor as some. How could he be poor, work as he did and steady as he was? Worth a whole grist of such bait as his brother, Ephe Dodge, and yet they never called Ephe poor—whatever worse name they might call him. When Ephe was off at a show in the village, Abe was following the plough, driving a straight furrow, though you wouldn’t have