Book Description

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.Round the Red Lamp. Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a volume collecting 15 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. These are medical and fantasy stories. The idea has been suggested to Conan Doyle by Jerome K. Jerome two years before when he was editor of The Idler. "The red lamp was the usual sign of the general practitioner in England", wrote Conan Doyle in the preface.Stories:Behind the TimesHis First OperationA Straggler of '15The Third GenerationA False StartThe Curse of EveSweetheartsA Physiologist's WifeThe Case of Lady SannoxA Question of DiplomacyA Medical DocumentLot No. 249The Los Amigos FiascoThe Doctors of HoylandThe Surgeon Talks