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THE OLD DOCTOR IN HIS LIBRARY.

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THE DIARY OF AN OLD DOCTOR: BEING SKETCHES OF THE MOST INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD PHYSICIAN.

BY

JAMES A. MAITLAND.

AUTHOR OF "SARTAROE," "THE WATCHMAN," "THE LAWYER'S STORY," "THE WANDERER," ETC., ETC. "The Physician, more than any other man, has the opportunity of studying the human mind, at times when all false pretensions are thrown aside. In these sketches, the reader is introduced to a variety of characters, portrayed under various circumstances—in health and in sickness, in prosperity and in adversity—and each character is delicately and graphically portrayed. It is a powerfully written work, decidedly a book for leisure reading. Lively and pathetic by turns, and a character that will secure it a place on the shelves of every choice library."— Times.

Philadelphia: T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS, 306 CHESTNUT STREET.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by T. B. PETERSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

  • I. THE OLD DOCTOR'S STUDY, 18
  • II. MY SURPRISE ON FINDING THE WINE BOTTLE HALF EMPTY, 38
  • III. THE DEATH OF THE POOR ARTIST, 100
  • IV. EDWARD MARSDEN KEEPING BACHELOR'S HALL, 170
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PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.

"THE DIARY OF AN OLD DOCTOR," forms one of a series of family books now in course of publication by us. The sketches of character drawn in this volume, will be found to be faithfully and gracefully portrayed; and the work is replete with interest and incident, while each sketch points a separate moral as well as forms a tale.

We ask the public, however, to read the Author's preface, and then judge for themselves whether they will follow him through the pages of his Journal, still confident that if they do, they will derive both amusement and instruction in the performance of the task.

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,

306 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

THE great favor these sketches have met with from the public, has determined the Author to send them forth revised, and somewhat increased in number.

While these sketches were in progress, many inquiries were in stituted as to the name of the Author, and many surmises have been put forth, which he begs to say at once, are altogether incorrect. "THE OLD DOCTOR" has received many letters begging him to gratify the laudable curiosity of the inquirers by publishing his name to the stories. However, he begs to assure his readers, that, through a whim of his own, and actuated also by some little bashfulness and nervousness,—as he did not know how his modest attempts in the field of literature would be relished by the public,—he determined to be incog at the outset, although his name is now known to the public.

The Reminiscences are facts which have occurred beneath his own observation; but they are so woven together as to prevent any unpleasant recognitions. To have, when these sketches were written, declared himself the Author, would have been to let loose a hornets' nest about his ears, and to receive all sorts of prying and perhaps impertinent letters from persons no way connected with any of the parties alluded to in the Reminiscences, who might fancy that some of their friends had been spoken of, or their affairs laid bare to the public eye.

CONTENTS.

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