Round the Red Lamp and Other Medical Writings

When Round the Red Lamp appeared in 1894, readers and reviewers were appalled. Expecting tales in the...
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Language: English
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Round the Red Lamp and Other Medical Writings by Doyle, Arthur Conan

Round the Red Lamp and Other Medical Writings

€43,39

Round the Red Lamp and Other Medical Writings

€43,39
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Paperback
Language: English

When Round the Red Lamp appeared in 1894, readers and reviewers were appalled. Expecting tales in the style of Conan Doyle's popular Sherlock Holmes stories, readers were shocked to find instead harrowing medical stories involving childbirth, syphilis, and botched amputations.

The tales in Round the Red Lamp range in theme from the realistic to the bizarre in such stories as 'Lot No. 249', involving a reanimated mummy that stalks a young medical student, and 'The Los Amigos Fiasco', where a doctor's misconception about the effects of electricity brings about surprising results for a condemned prisoner. In addition to the fifteen stories in the original collection, this edition reprints three of Conan Doyle's other rare medical tales, including the chilling masterpiece 'The Retirement of Signor Lambert'.

In addition to being a prolific writer, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a medical doctor and the author of a variety of nonfiction articles and essays on medical subjects. This edition includes a selection of Conan Doyle's rare nonfiction medical writings, some of which have never been reprinted. As Robert Darby argues in the introduction to this edition, these stories and articles provide 'a rare glimpse into the world of a provincial GP at the moment when old-style medicine was dying and the modern medical profession was emerging'.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Published: 12/31/2007
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.50w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780979233272


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/15/2008 pg. 98

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