by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Domestic and Social Fiction · Romantic Love · Class
Abstract
A collection of medical-life short stories, ‘facts and fancies’ told from a doctor’s-eye view of Victorian practice. Stories range from the gentle comedy of an old-fashioned country doctor and a student’s first operation, to grim tales of surgical horror, addiction, and the darker side of medicine, including the macabre ‘Lot No. 249’ and ‘The Case of Lady Sannox.‘
Capitoli / Chapters
- BEHIND THE TIMES.
- HIS FIRST OPERATION.
- A STRAGGLER OF ‘15.
- THE THIRD GENERATION.
- A FALSE START.
- THE CURSE OF EVE.
- SWEETHEARTS.
- A PHYSIOLOGIST’S WIFE.
- THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX.
- A QUESTION OF DIPLOMACY.
- A MEDICAL DOCUMENT.
- LOT NO. 249.
- THE LOS AMIGOS FIASCO.
- THE DOCTORS OF HOYLAND.
- THE SURGEON TALKS.
Connections
Forms & Genres: Short Story, Realism Themes & Concepts: Suffering and Pain, Critique of Progress, Reason and Rationalism, Guilt, Mortality Motifs: Disease and Contagion, Blood, Death Historical References: Darwinism (Evolutionary Theory), Victorian England Settings: London, Rural England Archetypes: Detective, Villain Topoi: Memento Mori