"Round the Red Lamp" features realistic stories and episodes of medical life, sketches of old-fashioned doctors, medical students and their pranks.
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Arthur Conan Doyle. Round The Red Lamp
I. Behind the times
II. His first operation
III. A straggler of '15
IV. The third generation
V. A false start
VI. The curse of Eve
VII. Sweethearts
VIII. A physiologist's wife
IX. The case of lady Sannox
X. A question of diplomacy
XI. A medical document
XII. Lot No. 249
XIII. The los amigos fiasco
XIV. The doctors of Hoyland
XV. The surgeon talks
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It was the first day of the winter session, and the third year's man was walking with the first year's man. Twelve o'clock was just booming out from the Tron Church.
"Let me see," said the third year's man. "You have never seen an operation?"
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"It's my granduncle, sir," said Norah, casting down her eyes before the keen, critical gaze of the young soldier. "He is in the front parlour."
"Could I have a word with him, miss? I'll call again if it don't chance to be convenient."