Table of Contents
General Editor’s IntroductionAcknowledgementsChronology of the Life of Arthur Conan DoyleIntroductionGenesis and CompositionPublication HistoryReceptionContext: BiographicalContext: Medical
Round the Red LampThe PrefaceBehind 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 TalksEssay on the Text
Appendices
- Additional Stories added to Crowborough edition‘Crabbe’s Practice’ (1884)‘My Friend the Murderer’ (1882)
- Author’s Edition preface to Round the Red Lamp (1903)
- One-Act play adaptations‘Foreign Policy’ (1893)‘Waterloo’ (1894)
- Early Medical Essays of Conan Doyle
‘Gelseminum as a Poison’, British Medical Journal (20 Sept 1879)‘Notes on a Case of Leucocythaemia’, The Lancet (25 March 1882)‘Life and Death in the Blood’, Good Words (March 1883)‘The Contagious Diseases Act’, The Medical Times (16 June 1883)‘American Medical Diplomas’ The Evening News, Portsmouth (23 Sept 1884)‘The Remote Effects of Gout’, The Lancet (29 November 1884)‘Compulsory Vaccination’, The Evening Mail, Portsmouth (15 July 1887)‘Compulsory Vaccination’, The Hampshire County Times (27 July 1887)‘The Consumption Cure’, Daily Telegraph (20 Nov 1890)‘Dr Koch and His Cure’, Review of Reviews 2 (Dec 1890)
ApparatusAbbreviationsEmendations and VariationsExplanatory Notes