Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Doyle 1894

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Disease, Sex, Heredity

    Pronounces Arthur C Doyle's new collection of medical stories 'a daring book; for more than one of the stories have motives which but a year or two back would have been held taboo in English fiction'. Indeed, Doyle 'greatly daring, essays to treat the theme of a man who almost on the eve of his wedding finds that he has from his grandfather [...] much the same heritage [i.e. syphilis] as fell to the lot of Oswald in "Ghosts". (599)