Over the hookah. Tales of a talkative doctor.

Chicago: Fred. Klein Company, 1896. 8vo. 618 pp. FIRST EDITION. With 21 plates (frontispiece lacking) and text illustrations throughout. Original illustrated red publisher’s cloth, floral patterned endpapers. Item #11868

First edition of this collection of stories and anecdotes based on the medical profession. Lydston (1858-1923) graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical School in New York, specializing in genito-urinary surgery and venereal diseases. The author of three other works of fiction, he was a versatile figure, not only a writer, doctor and professor of medicine he was also a professor of criminal anthropology.

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