DOCTOR'STHE RECREATION SERIES CHARLES WELLS MOULTON General Editor VOLUME TEN 'DOCTOR'S I\^ C I L E »"i—"—^ 1*. iUi'ii'viL' 3\ill.l ,^ ^ PLArlNC Doctotf. Chicago a^ New 1 — Copyright, 1905, BY THE SAALnELD PUBLISHING COMPANY U»»t BY The WERNER COHPANy AkaOm, Omiu CONTENTS PAGE Preface iS Watch in the NightA 17 Madeline BridgesS. Alexander 18The Vizier of the Two-Homed .... Frank R. Stockton The Family Doctor 25 Augustus Caille The Magnificent Madam Rush 27 William Perrine Promises . , The Doctor's Dilemma . . . . 147 Hesba Stretton ix 434352 CONTENTS PAGE Dr. Falconer's Temptation Tom Greer Dr. Brandt's Wife . 200 Katherine Grosjean Two Cases of Grip .... 210 Charles B. Lewis (M. Quad) Baked Beans and Culture 213 Eugene Field Fancy Diseases 216 B. P. Shillabcr Tuskmaker's ToothpuUer 217 G. H. Derby The Influence of Music in Medicine 220 Dr. Charles H. Merz Hay Fever ...... 224 HowardJoe The Leucocyte and Microbe . 225 W. C. Cooper, M. D. A Child's Judgment .... 229 Robert Mitchell Floyd The Doctor's Narrow Escape 230 Pa on the Microbe Question . 231 The Ungrateful Baker .... Convalescent ...... 23s Will H. Ogilvie General average 237 A brief career 252 cheese 272A A definition . 256 familiar conditionA 254 good beginning .A 253 great invalidA 248 A heroic physician 250 hot-headed doctorA 256 A medical jest 277 A mother's hope 255 pleasant possibility 263A proper diagnosisA 275 signA 273 quick relief 271A A safe diagnosis 25q A sure cure 271 .