"This book contains the text of the 1894 Methuen first edition of Round the Red Lamp, Doyle's ill-received collection of medically themed short stories, as well as his nonfiction medical writing and three additional stories reprinted verbatim from the periodicals in which they first appeared. Editor Darby, author of the admirable A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain, contributes a fine introduction and some helpful but brief notes to the individual pieces....The best of the bunch is the highly disturbing 'The Case of Lady Sannox,' in which a sadistic husband goads the surgeon sleeping with his wife into mutilating her lower lip with a scalpel."

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