Chapter I: Front Matter

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+------------------------------------------------------+ | | | CHARLES WELLS MOULTON _General Editor_ | | | | | | | | | +------------------------------------------------------+

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THE DOCTOR’S RED LAMP

A Book of Short Stories Concerning the Doctor’s Daily Life.

Selected by

CHARLES WELLS MOULTON.

1904 The Saalfield Publishing Co. Chicago Akron, O. New York

Copyright, 1904, by The Saalfield Publishing Company

The Werner Company Akron, O.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE SURGEON’S MIRACLE, _Joseph Kirkland._

THE DOCTORS OF HOYLAND, _Conan Doyle._

DOCTOR SANTOS: A CHARACTER SKETCH, _Gustave Morales._

THE CURING OF KATE NEGLEY, _Lucy S. Furman._

A DOCTOR’S STORY, _E. M. Davy._

JOHN BARTINE’S WATCH: THE DOCTOR’S STORY, _Ambrose Bierce._

TWO WILLS, _Anonymous._

A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL (A GENERAL PRACTITIONER), _Ian Maclaren._

THE VARIOUS TEMPERS OF GRANDMOTHER GREGG, _Ruth McEnery Stuart._

DR. BARRÈRE, _Margaret Oliphant._

A WILL AND A WAY, _Margaret Sutton Briscoe._

DR. ARMSTRONG, _D. L. B. S._

DR. WYGRAM’S SON, _G. M. McCrie._

ON THE INDIA FRONTIER, _Henry Seton Merriman._

DOCTOR GREENFIELD, _Lady Mabel Howard._

DR. GLADMAN: A SKETCH OF COLONIAL LIFE, _Gentleman’s Magazine._

DR. WRIGHTSON’S ENEMY, _Hon. Elenor Eden._

THE COMING OF THE SHIP, _Maud Wilder Goodwin._

DR. PENNINGTON’S COUNTRY PRACTICE, _Butler Monroe._

THE DOCTOR: AN OLD VIRGINIA FOX-HUNTER, _A. G. Bradley._

THE DOCTOR’S FRONT YARD, _R. H. Sessions._

A GENTLE MANIAC, _ George Edgar Montgomery._

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

THE VILLAGE DOCTOR[1] _Frontispiece_
_From the Painting by H. Kretzschmer._

A SPOONFUL EVERY HOUR[1] 88
_From the Painting by Ph. Fleischer._

VACCINATING THE BABY[1] 174
_From the Painting by Ed. Hamman._

A VIOLENT FALL 256
_From the Painting by Adolf Echtler._

[1] Original by the courtesy of William Wood & Co., New York.