Summary Martin becomes a volunteer assistant to the Superintendent of Health, Dr. Woestijne. He denounces accumulation of dirt and trash in yards and streets and criticizes the school board for lack of building ventilation and instruction in tooth brushing. He traces the origin of the typhoid epidemic to a seamstress, […]
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Summary Dr. and Mrs. Coughlin, of Leopolis, take a tour in their three-year-old Maxwell car and eventually visit Dr. and Mrs. Tromp, in another North Dakota town. The two doctors discuss collections, treatment of certain ailments, and other doctors, including Dr. Winter and a brainy but brash young physician, Arrowsmith. […]
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Summary A year and a half pass while Dr. Arrowsmith is becoming established in Wheatsylvania. Occasional lapses into drinking and all-night poker playing tarnish his reputation to some extent, but in general his practice improves. He and Leora now have their own home. Not wishing to become fixed in “a […]
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Summary Martin orders his office equipment from the New Idea Instrument and Furniture Company, whose vice-president is his former preceptor, Dr. Roscoe Geake. He rejects the recommended Tonsillectomy Outfit but includes a steel stand, a sterilizer, flasks, test tubes, and a combined examining chair and operating table. A new plate […]
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Summary The contentious Tozers make life disagreeable for Martin, trying to control his movements in every detail from punctuality at suppertime to the choice of an office location. Always the emphasis is on saving money. Mrs. Tozer would have placed his office in the barn. Bert would have had Martin […]
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Summary Gottlieb finally finds employment with Hunziker Pharmaceutical Company, of Pittsburgh, an institution that he has always criticized for doubtful vaccines and money-making addiction. Since he is to be given free range in the laboratory, however, he accepts with joy. Dr. Rouncefield, in his Chicago clinic, chuckles over the change […]
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Summary Dr. Max Gottlieb is a German Jew who has never been interested in practicing medicine but always in laboratory research. He had married the “patient and wordless daughter of a Gentile merchant.” He is over-cautious about announcing results of his research, always waiting for definite proof and hating men […]
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Summary Martin begins his experience as a house physician by treating a factory worker who has been suffocated by smoke in a fire at Boardman Box Factory. The spectacular ride to the scene of disaster in an ambulance and the subsequent treatment of the victim give Martin a feeling of […]
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Summary Dr. Silva welcomes Martin back to medical school and congratulates him on his marriage. Leora, permitted to write once a week, tells Martin that she has been dropped from the school of nursing because of absence and of being married. She is secretly studying shorthand and trying to learn […]
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Summary Clif Clawson, now a successful automobile salesman, drives into Zenith at the dizzying speed of thirty-eight miles an hour. The year is 1908. Noisy as ever but better groomed, he takes Martin to dinner at the Grand Hotel, where they are joined by George F. Babbitt, ten years their […]
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