Summary Director Rippleton Holabird, jealous of Martin’s newfound magnificence, which includes a limousine and a chauffeur, retaliates by shifting Martin’s work from phage to influenza vaccine. After months of halfhearted experimentation, Martin tells his superior that Rockefeller investigators have found the cause of the flu and that he is going […]
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Summary Martin is lonely in New York after his return from the West Indies, having been reduced from Dr. Arrowsmith to a man with no one to talk to He finds a companion in Joyce Lanyon, who knows how to make men talk. He visits her in her palatial home, […]
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Summary Martin returns to New York on the St. Buryan, where he encounters Miss Gwilliam again, returning from a winter in Trinidad and Caracas. She receives short answers when she inquires about Sondelius and Leora and draws the conclusion that he is stupid and not very successful. Other shipboard acquaintances […]
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Summary The plague has only begun to invade St. Swithin’s when Martin divides the population into two equal parts, injecting one half with the plague phage and leaving the other half unprotected. The unphaged half has far more victims than the other, and Martin is elated. Cecil Twyford risks his […]
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Summary Inchcape Jones drives Martin to the village of Carib, worse stricken than Blackwater. The rat-fleas have infected the ground squirrels, and Carib has death in every house. The horrors that Martin beholds almost turn him from his determination to experiment as Gottlieb had ordered. Since Inchcape Jones does not […]
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Summary None of the tourists aboard the St. Buryan had known of the quarantine before leaving New York. Now they realize that once they go ashore at St. Hubert, they will be prisoners there for the duration of the epidemic. Martin begins to wish that he had forcibly left Leora […]
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Summary Dr. Gottlieb has already heard of the plague in St. Hubert, for Ross McGurk’s worldwide means of transportation and communication keeps the Institute better informed than are the residents of Blackwater itself. It is rumored that Arrowsmith of McGurk may have something to eradicate the plague. Martin is summoned […]
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Summary From China, the bubonic plague is brought to the West Indies by way of Marseilles and other European ports. Rats from the infected Pendown Castle escape in St. Hubert, and the first victim dies of plague. This small tropical city of a hundred thousand inhabitants is a British possession, […]
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Summary A year passes. Terry Wickett returns after the Armistice, and Martin keeps up his laboratory work, studying mathematics and physical chemistry and reading books written in French and German on the side. Tubbs resigns as Director of the Institute to double his salary by working for a millionaire named […]
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Summary After six weeks of intensive work with the X Principle, Martin learns that the Director of the Institute knows of the unusual results. McGurk summons the young scientist, congratulates him, and offers to create a Department of Microbic Pathology with Martin at the head. The yearly salary is to […]
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