Round the Red Lamp

The narrator’s first encounter with Dr. James Winter comes at two in the morning: he kicks the doctor, loses his spectacles, and is bundled into a warm bath. Years later, he still has reason to remember the old country physician.

In this late-nineteenth-century collection, Arthur Conan Doyle turns to the people and pressures behind medical practice. In “Behind the Times,” Dr. Winter’s old-fashioned remedies and open disdain for modern science seem no match for two young, up-to-date doctors—until influenza sweeps through the countryside and one of them falls ill. The narrator wants Winter’s reassuring presence, but the doctor has just been summoned to tend his rival, Dr. Patterson. With the epidemic raging and both young physicians laid low, who will be left to care for whom?

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